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单词 Hun
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Definition of Hun in English:

Hun

noun hʌnhən
  • 1A member of a warlike Asiatic nomadic people who invaded and ravaged Europe in the 4th–5th centuries.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the first two decades of the 5th century, the Huns arrived in central Europe and subjugated many Germanic peoples.
    • When Rome collapsed in the fifth century AD, Trieste was overrun by the Huns, and then fell under Byzantine rule.
    • But no one really knows what kind of language Hunnic was, which is odd considering what a big splash Attila and the Huns made across Asia and Europe in the 5th century AD.
    • In the fourth century, the Huns, a nomadic people from central Asia, began attacking the German tribes.
    • Attila assembled a huge army of several tens of thousands of Huns, Goths, Gepids, Heruls, and others, besieged and took Aquileia, and marched as far as Milan, which offered no resistance.
    1. 1.1 A reckless or uncivilized destroyer.
      corporate huns masquerading as white knights
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We stumbled in to the Lager House like conquering Huns drunk on French wine.
  • 2derogatory, informal A German (especially during the First and Second World Wars).

    1. 2.1 Germans collectively.
      millions of boys were eager to go and fight the Hun
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Patton was quick to volunteer for an unofficial expeditionary force to fight the Hun's skeletal legions.
      • I remember when I was fighting the Hun in North Africa, and me and the boys used to sit around and compare notes from home.
      • Kiwis have always marched where empire dictated, be it to fight the Boer, the Hun or the Cong.
      • They have put on uniforms and been drilled into rude shape to fight the Hun in World War I.
      • As full-fledged fighting men, they would now join in the fight against the Hun.

Derivatives

  • Hunnish

  • adjective ˈhʌnɪʃˈhənɪʃ
    • First came the Huns who built up under King Attila, called ‘the Scourge of God’, the powerful Hunnish Empire.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like his distant ancestor and name-sake, the legendary Hunnish king, nicknamed ‘The Scourge of God’ by his contemporaries, Attila was a bit of a dare-devil.
      • In the east, Chinese influence spread until, in the early centuries AD, waves of Turkic, Mongol, and Hunnish invaders set off tribal movements that pushed through Central Asia.
      • As well as being flogged for stupidity and persecuted for his Hunnish origins, he was flung down the kipper hole at the back of the school dining-room, along with meal scraps intended for pigs.
      • They were discussing safe political subjects: the Hunnish threat on the Danube frontier; the Vandal threat to the wheat-ships from Egypt; the Visigothic threat to the Roman towns in Gaul.

Origin

Old English Hūne, Hūnas (plural), from late Latin Hunni, from Greek Hounnoi, of Middle Iranian origin.

Rhymes

begun, bun, done, Donne, dun, fine-spun, forerun, fun, gun, Gunn, hon, none, nun, one, one-to-one, outdone, outgun, outrun, plus-one, pun, run, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, ton, tonne, tun, underdone, Verdun, won
 
 

Definition of Hun in US English:

Hun

nounhənhən
  • 1A member of a warlike Asiatic nomadic people who ravaged Europe in the 4th–5th centuries.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Attila assembled a huge army of several tens of thousands of Huns, Goths, Gepids, Heruls, and others, besieged and took Aquileia, and marched as far as Milan, which offered no resistance.
    • In the first two decades of the 5th century, the Huns arrived in central Europe and subjugated many Germanic peoples.
    • But no one really knows what kind of language Hunnic was, which is odd considering what a big splash Attila and the Huns made across Asia and Europe in the 5th century AD.
    • In the fourth century, the Huns, a nomadic people from central Asia, began attacking the German tribes.
    • When Rome collapsed in the fifth century AD, Trieste was overrun by the Huns, and then fell under Byzantine rule.
    1. 1.1 A reckless or uncivilized destroyer.
      corporate huns masquerading as white knights
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We stumbled in to the Lager House like conquering Huns drunk on French wine.
  • 2derogatory, informal A German (especially in military contexts during World War I and World War II).

    1. 2.1the Hun Germans collectively.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They have put on uniforms and been drilled into rude shape to fight the Hun in World War I.
      • Patton was quick to volunteer for an unofficial expeditionary force to fight the Hun's skeletal legions.
      • As full-fledged fighting men, they would now join in the fight against the Hun.
      • I remember when I was fighting the Hun in North Africa, and me and the boys used to sit around and compare notes from home.
      • Kiwis have always marched where empire dictated, be it to fight the Boer, the Hun or the Cong.

Origin

Old English Hūne, Hūnas (plural), from late Latin Hunni, from Greek Hounnoi, of Middle Iranian origin.

 
 
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