VILLAIN

villain, scoundrel

(noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

villain, baddie

(noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

villain

A vile, wicked person.

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

A deliberate scoundrel.

In fiction, a character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero.

Synonyms: bad guy, Thesaurus:villain

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

Archaic form of villein.

Synonyms

• knave

• rascal

• scamp

• cad

• See also villain

• See also troublemaker

Verb

villain (third-person singular simple present villains, present participle villaining, simple past and past participle villained)

(obsolete, transitive) To debase; to degrade.

Anagrams

• Villani, villian

Source: Wiktionary

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Vil"lain, n. Etym: [OE. vilein, F. vilain, LL. villanus, from villa a village, L. villa a farm. See Villa.]

1. (Feudal Law)

Definition: One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.] If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.

Note: Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebæ); and villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another. Blackstone.

2. A baseborn or clownish person; a boor. [R.] Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the blood of the gentleman in another, what difference shall there be proved Becon.

3. A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp. Like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak. Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. Pope.

Vil"lain, a. Etym: [F. vilain.]

Definition: Villainous. [R.] Shak.

Vil"lain, v. t.

Definition: To debase; to degrade. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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