Usually means: Antagonist opposing hero, causing conflict.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. villain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. villain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. villain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. villain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. villain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Villain, villain: Wordnik
  7. villain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. villain: Wiktionary
  9. villain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. villain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. villain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. villain: Dictionary.com
  13. villain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. villain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Villain (album), The Villain (film), Villain (Attila album), Villain (album), Villain (disambiguation), Villain (roller coaster), Villain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Villain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. villain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. villain: Rhymezone
  19. villain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. villain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. villain: Free Dictionary
  22. villain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. villain: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. villain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. villain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. villain: Idioms
  2. villain: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. villain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. villain: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See villains as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A vile, wicked person.
noun:  An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
noun:  A deliberate scoundrel.
noun:  (archaic, derogatory) A low-born, abject person.
noun:  In fiction, a character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.
noun:  (poker) Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To debase; to degrade.
noun:  Archaic form of villein (“feudal tenant, peasant, serf”). [(historical) A feudal tenant, a serf.]

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