villain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A vile, wicked person.

   “Oh moſt pernicious woman! / Oh Villaine, Villaine, ſmiling damned Villaine!”

2. isim An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
3. isim A deliberate scoundrel.
4. isim A low-born, abject person.

   “Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue: I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe Haue to their names tytles of dignitie, And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?”

5. isim A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.

   “Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”

6. isim Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).

   “Let's discuss how to play if you are the chip leader (that is, if you have more chips than all the villains).”

7. isim Archaic form of villein (“feudal tenant, peasant, serf”).
8. fiil To debase; to degrade .