villainとは

別の表記

• villan (古風な用法)

語源

Probably Middle English villein, borrowed from Old French vilein (modern: 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): /vɪlən/
• 韻: -ɪlən

名詞

villain (複数形 villains)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A vile, wicked person.
   1. An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
   2. A deliberate scoundrel.
2. The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
   • 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
• bad guy
• cad
• See also Thesaurus:villain
• See also Thesaurus:troublemaker
• antagonist

派生語

• supervillain
• villainess

関連する語

• villein

動詞

villain (三人称単数 現在形 villains, 現在分詞 villaining, 過去形および過去分詞形 villained)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To debase; to degrade.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Sir T. More to this entry?)

アナグラム

• Villani