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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Villain \Vil"lain\, a. [F. vilain.]
Villainous. [R.]
--Shak.
Villain \Vil"lain\, n. [OE. vilein, F. vilain, LL. villanus, from villa a village, L. villa a farm. See Villa.]
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(Feudal Law) 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 gleb[ae]); and villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another.
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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?
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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.
Villain \Vil"lain\, v. t.
To debase; to degrade. [Obs.]
--Sir T. More.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300 (late 12c. as a surname), "base or low-born rustic," from Anglo-French and Old French vilain "peasant, farmer, commoner, churl, yokel" (12c.), from Medieval Latin villanus "farmhand," from Latin villa "country house, farm" (see villa).\nThe most important phases of the sense development of this word may be summed up as follows: 'inhabitant of a farm; peasant; churl, boor; clown; miser; knave, scoundrel.' Today both Fr. vilain and Eng. villain are used only in a pejorative sense.
[Klein]
\nMeaning "character in a novel, play, etc. whose evil motives or actions help drive the plot" is from 1822.Wiktionary
n. 1 (rfc-sense) (rfquote-sense: en) A vile, wicked person. 2 # An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes. 3 # A deliberate scoundrel. 4 The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero. vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To debase; to degrade.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Villain is a 1971 gangster film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane, T. P. McKenna and Donald Sinden.
A villain is an evil person or fictional character.
Villain(s) or The Villain(s) may also refer to:
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Lee Sang-il, based on Shuichi Yoshida's crime noir novel of the same name. It was nominated for numerous awards at the 2011 Japan Academy Prize, including Best Film and Best Director (which was director Lee's second nomination, after his 2006 win for Hula Girls), and won five, which included all four acting awards and for the score by Joe Hisaishi.
A villain (also known as the " antagonist," "baddie", "bad guy", "heavy" or "black hat") is an " evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction.
The villain usually is the antagonist (though can be the protagonist), the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters. A female villain is occasionally called a villainess (often to differentiate her from a male villain). Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot".
Villain is a 2002 Tamil film directed by K. S. Ravikumar and produced by S. S. Chakravarthy. The film stars Ajith Kumar in a dual role while Meena and Kiran play female leads. Sujatha, FEFSI Vijayan, Karunaas and Ramesh Khanna appear in other significant roles, while Vidyasagar composed the score and soundtrack for the film.
It opened to positive reviews and became box office success, with Ajith's performance leading to his second Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
Villain was a wooden roller coaster at the Geauga Lake amusement park in Aurora, Ohio. It was designed by the now-defunct Custom Coasters International (CCI). The ride opened as a part of the four-coaster expansion Six Flags brought to Geauga Lake between 1999 and 2000. It was a wooden hybrid, which means it had steel supports but had wood track. When it originally opened, the ride was moderately smooth, but by 2001 it deteriorated and was re-tracked during the off-season. This was the second CCI coaster to feature a "trick track" element (the first was Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure) which the track banks from one side to another while staying otherwise on a straight path.
Rocky Mountain Construction, an Idaho-based manufacturing firm, handled the construction of the ride. The ride had been retracked by Martin & Vleminckx.
Currently, the Villain's trains are at Kings Island, another Cedar Fair park in Mason, OH. It is unknown what they will be used for.
On June 17, 2008, The Villain was sold for scrap to Cleveland Scrap for $2,500. The ride has since been demolished.
Villain is a 2012 Indian Kannada action film written and directed by M. S. Ramesh and produced by Yogish Hunsur under the banner Saraswathi Entertainers. The film stars Auditya and Ragini Dwivedi in lead roles.
Villain (2013) is a Bengali Movie Directed by Tota Roy Choudhury.Starring Tota Roy Chowdhury and Rituparna Sengupta.Tota Roy Choudhury made his Debut By this Film under his Home production Trident Lord.The Film Released on 5 October 2013.
Usage examples of "villain".
Here am I with a pack of villains on my hands and no way to convict them of tinkering with the water adjutages, let alone treason!
Had he been able to state his mind, Asey thought as he started to inch around the side of the house, the doctor would undoubtedly have expressed some sardonic sentiment about Two - gun Blaney about to pounce on his villain, and added something about his own personal preference for staying well in the background on all such occasions.
The villain probably intended that her identity as the famous authoress would be revealed when the two of you were discovered in the morning.
You seek the return of the gold that was seized off Bonanza in August of 1690 and that is believed to be in the hands of the band of thieves and pirates led by the villain Jack Shaftoe.
However, I did not wait to be pelted, but shut myself in my room and lay down on the bed, only sorry that I had not choked the villain outright.
By: John Mortimer Category: Fiction Mystery Synopsis: Dunster hero or villain?
Oh, and the fact that Stephen is a whoremaster, Georgio is not as white as he likes everyone to think, and Nuala is still seeing that fecking villain of hers.
Why should she believe anything he said if it meant accepting that her fiancé was a black-hearted villain and murderer?
Dead or not, a gangland villain was treated by the police a little bit differently to a fellow officer.
All of his imaginings had pictured either Gime, Del Ling, Old Dan, or even the girl, Kateen MacRoy, in the role of villain, perhaps mastermind.
Those low villains rendered a stay in Vienna very unpleasant to foreigners, and it was a matter of the greatest difficulty to gratify the slightest natural want without running the risk of being annoyed.
At this I seized the impudent villain by the throat, and pinning him against the wall with a strong hand I would have broken his head with the butt of my pistol, if the landlord had not prevented me.
A villain who died whilst I was under the Leads had passed thirty-seven years in The Wells, and he was forty-four when sentenced.
I was humbled by being forced to confess to myself that chance and chance alone had saved me from becoming a villain.
She had wit, learning without pretension, taste, and a great hatred for the King of Prussia, whom she called a villain.