Meaning

6 senses
  1. A vile, wicked person.

    a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

  2. A vile, wicked person.

    An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.

  3. A deliberate scoundrel.

    Schurke, Gauner, Halunke

    злоде́йzlodéj, негодя́йnegodjáj, мерза́вецmerzávec

    лиході́йlyxodíj, злочи́нецьzločýnecʹ

  4. A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.

  5. Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).

    Let's discuss how to play if you are the chip leader (that is, if you have more chips than all the villains).

  6. (archaic, derogatory)A low-born, abject person.

Examples

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  1. Tom is a villain.

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  2. Who's your favorite movie villain?

    ruКто твой любимый киношный злодей?

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  3. The hero became the villain.

    ruГерой превратился в злодея.

    deDer Held wurde zu einem Schurken.

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  4. You're slower than a villain's horse.

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  5. Tom is a comic book villain.

    ruТом – злодей из комикса.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
bad person in a stage or screen play:
scoundrel:
Русский
By meaning 2
bad person in a stage or screen play:
scoundrel:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
bad person in a stage or screen play:
scoundrel:

Origin

Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in tur

Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Doublet of villein.

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