villain

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A vile, wicked person.
2. A vile, wicked person.
3. A low-born, abject person.
4. In fiction, 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”).
6. Archaic form of villein (“feudal tenant, peasant, serf”).

Verb

To debase; to degrade.

Konzepte

Schurke

Bösewicht

Schuft

Halunke

Bandit

Kanaille

Canaille

Lump

Schelm

böser Mensch

Lümmel

Rowdy

Teufelsbrut

Übeltäter

Galgenvogel

Bösling

schlechter Mensch

übler Mensch

Bösewichtsrolle

Schurkenrolle

Schalk

Missetäter

grausamer Bandit

grausamer Räuber

Spitzbube

Feind

Krieger

Rebell

Oberböse

Gauner

Frevler

Frevlerin

Sünder

Sünderin

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈvɪl.ən/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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