villainとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• villan (古風な用法)

語源

Probably from Middle English villein, borrowed 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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlən/
• 韻: -ɪlən

名詞

villain (複数形 villains, feminine villainess)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A vile, wicked person.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 4, scene 2]:

     Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain.

   1. An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
   2. A deliberate scoundrel.
2. In fiction, a character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero.

   Synonyms: bad guy; see also Thesaurus:villain

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎^[1]:

     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.

   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[2]

     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.

3. (poker) 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).

4. Archaic form of villein.

同意語

• knave
• rascal
• scamp
• cad
• See also Thesaurus:villain
• See also Thesaurus:troublemaker

派生語

• anti-villain
• supervillain
• villainess
• villainise / villainize

関連する語

• villein