villain

Etymology
Probably from, from (modern 🇨🇬), in turn from , meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a , which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. .

Noun

 * 1)  A vile, wicked person.
 * 2) An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
 * 3) A deliberate scoundrel.
 * 4)  A low-born, abject person.
 * 5)  In fiction, a character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.
 * 6) * July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
 * As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
 * 1)  Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:.
 * 1) * July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
 * As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
 * 1)  Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:.
 * As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
 * 1)  Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:villain
 * See also Thesaurus:troublemaker
 * See also Thesaurus:villain
 * See also Thesaurus:troublemaker
 * See also Thesaurus:villain
 * See also Thesaurus:troublemaker

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skurk
 * Akan: bɔnefoɔ
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: ліхадзе́й, злачы́нец
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: хулюҗин
 * Mandarin:, , , , 無籟, , ,
 * Czech:, , , , ,
 * Danish: skurk, slyngel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: abomenulo,
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:, , , , ilkimys
 * French:
 * Galician: vilán, vilán
 * Georgian: ბოროტმოქმედი, არამზადა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: scelerato
 * Irish: bithiúnach
 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kannada:, ,
 * Kazakh: жауыз, дұшпан, залым, сұм
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຄົນຮ້າຍ
 * Latin:, scelesta
 * Latvian: nelietis
 * Lithuanian: piktadarys
 * Macedonian: никаквец, злобник
 * Malay: penjahat
 * Malayalam:, ,
 * Maori: whiro
 * Middle English: sot
 * Navajo: ájígaléidii
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skurk
 * Odia: ଭିଲେନ୍
 * Persian:, , , ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зло̏бнӣк
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zloduch,, lotor, zlosyn
 * Slovene: hudobnež, zlobnež
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: ҷинояткор,
 * Telugu: విలన్
 * Thai: ผู้ร้าย, วายร้าย
 * Tsonga: muxanisi
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: лиході́й, злочи́нець
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: kẻ tàn ác
 * Welsh: ragat


 * Afrikaans: skurk
 * Arabic:, بَطَل شَرِير, شَخْصِيَّة شَرِيرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ліхадзе́й
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: хулюҗин
 * Mandarin: 惡棍角色, 奸角,
 * Czech: záporný hrdina
 * Danish: skurk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: vilán
 * Georgian: ბოროტმოქმედი
 * German:, Oberböse,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: bithiúnach
 * Italian: il
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:, ,
 * Kazakh: жауыз
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: carnifex, scelerātus, persona negativa
 * Macedonian: никаквец, негати́вец, злобник
 * Malay: penjahat
 * Malayalam:, ,
 * Navajo: ájígaléidii
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, złol ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: spirit rău, ,
 * Russian:, отрица́тельный геро́й
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: негати́вац
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: negativec
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: лиході́й
 * Vietnamese: nhân vật phản diện,


 * French: ,
 * Galician: vilán
 * Georgian:
 * Italian:, servo feudale
 * Malayalam:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:


 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Neapolitan: (1,2,3)
 * Norman:

Verb

 * 1)  To debase; to degrade.