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单词 villain
释义
villain
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n

A villain is a bad person — real or made up. In books, movies, current events, or history, the villain is the character who does mean, evil things on purpose.
Today a villain is a wicked person, whether in fact or fiction. In the 1300s, villain described a low-born rustic. It came from the Medieval Latin word villanus, or farmhand. Just why a word would evolve from meaning farmer into evildoer is a little mysterious, although it probably has to do with farmers not being chivalrous, like the knights who were so admired in those days.
WORD FAMILY
villain: villainess, villainous, villains+/villainess: villainesses/villainous: villainously, villainousness
USAGE EXAMPLES
But what looked like a potentially game-winning subsequent drive for Washington ended on Cousins’s second interception, with Rodgers-Cromartie playing the villain again.
Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017)
He’s a very unctuous, oily, truly horrific villain who the audience will enjoy despising.
The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017)
Those villains remain racism, greed, lack of a decent education and misuse of political power.
New York Times(Dec 30, 2016)
1n a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
scoundrel
blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound
someone who is morally reprehensible
gallows bird
a person who deserves to be hanged
knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
villainess
a woman villain
perisher
bounder
persona non grata, unwelcome person
a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome
2n the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
Syn|Hyper
baddie
character, part, persona, role, theatrical role
an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
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