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Definitions: Vandal |
VandalNoun1. Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property. 2. A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vandal" was first used: 1663. (references) |
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Literature | Vandal One who destroys beautiful objects to make way for what he terms "improvements," or to indulge his own caprice. When Genseric with his Vandals captured Rome in A.D. 455, he mutilated the public monuments regardless of their worth or beauty. "The word `vandalism' was invented by the Abbé Grégoire, propos of the destruction of works of art by revolutionary fanatics."- Nineteenth Century (Aug., 1893, p. 272). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp; disorderly person, misdemeanant; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender. |
Commonalty | Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond. |
Evil doer | Noun: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast. |
Vulgarity | Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vandal |
| Specialty definitions using "vandal": Revolutionary Surrealist Vandal Party, RSVP. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vandal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (vandal), Czech (litter bug, vandal), Manx (vandal), Romanian (vandal), Serbo-Croatian (vandal), Swedish (Hun, vandal), Turkish (vandal). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Vandal Outlaws (1912) | |
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Economic History | Algeria | Since the 5th century B.C., the indigenous tribes of northern Africa (identified by the Romans as "Berbers") have been pushed back from the coast by successive waves of Phoenician, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish, and, finally, French invaders. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vandal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Vandal" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.31% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "vandal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Vandal | Last name | 200 | 34,498 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "vandal": revolutionary Surrealist Vandal Party. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vandal": vandal-hit, vandal-plagued, vandal-proof, vandal-resistant. | |
Ending with "vandal": anti-vandal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vandal hearts | 110 |
vandal | 66 |
vandal hearts 2 | 39 |
nike vandal | 17 |
vandal proof mail box | 13 |
nike supreme vandal | 9 |
vandal vivaldi vs | 9 |
mail proof vandal | 9 |
vandal heart | 7 |
vandal hearts ii | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vandal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vandal, barbar (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, goth, gothic, heathen, Hun). (various references) | |
Arabic | مخرب (devastating, ruined, stricken, subversive, tumbledown, wasting), المخرب للمتلكات الآخرين, الوندالي من قبيلة جرمانية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разрушител на културни ценности, вандалски, вандал (goth). (various references) | |
Chinese | 艺术" 坏者. (various references) | |
Czech | vandal (litter bug). (various references) | |
Danish | vandalismemodstandsdygtig (vandal resistant). (various references) | |
Dutch | vandaal, straatschender. (various references) | |
Esperanto | vandalo. (various references) | |
Farsi | خرابگر. (various references) | |
Finnish | vandaali. (various references) | |
French | vandale. (various references) | |
German | Vandale. (various references) | |
Greek | βάνδαλοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משחית (destroyer, destructive), ו "לי, ו "ל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vandál (barbarous, goth, gothish). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perusak (botcher, depridator, destroyer). (various references) | |
Italian | vandalo (Hun). (various references) | |
Korean | 파괴자 (Destroyer). (various references) | |
Manx | vandal, jeeylleyder, cragheyder (despoiler, filibuster, looter, mass murderer, predator, raider, slaughterer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andalvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vândalo (gothic). (various references) | |
Romanian | vandal. (various references) | |
Russian | вандал (Goth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vandalski, vandal. (various references) | |
Spanish | vándalo. (various references) | |
Swedish | vandal (Hun), vamdalisk. (various references) | |
Turkish | vandallar ile ilgili (vandalic), vandal, sanat eserlerini yıkan kimse, sanat eserlerini yıkan (vandalic), barbar (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, goth, gothic, heathen, heathenish, savage, uncivilized, vandalic, wild). (various references) | |
Ukranian | хуліганський (ruffian, ruffianly, vandalistic), хуліган (bully, hellion, hoodlum, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian), варварський (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, gothic, heathenish, uncivilized, vandalistic), варвар (barbarian, goth, heathen), вандал (visigoth). (various references) | |
Welsh | fandal. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vandal": vandalic, vandalise, vandalised, vandalises, vandalising, vandalism, vandalisms, vandalistic, vandalization, vandalizations, vandalize, vandalized, vandalizes, vandalizing, vandals. (additional references) | |
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"Vandal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: andal, Avanda, Avtandil, avunduk, candal, Nandyal, Qandil, Vaadad, vadal, valdal, vanal, vandaly, vandel, Vandi, vandle, vandul, Vanua, Vanwall, varndean, vedal, venda, vendle, vental, vianda, vinda, Vonadk, vundal, Yandell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vandal" (pronounced va"ndul) |
| 5 | -a" n d u l | candle, handle, mishandle, sandal, scandal. |
| 4 | -n d u l | bindle, Brindle, bundle, dwindle, fondle, kindle, manhandle, panhandle, rekindle, Rundle, spindle, swindle, trundle, unbundle, Windle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, caboodle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, feudal, fiddle, genocidal, girdle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, ladle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, saddle, Seidel, sidle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, tidal, toddle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-n-v" | |
-1 letter: aland, naval, vanda. | |
-2 letters: alan, anal, land, lava, nada. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ana, and, ava, dal, lad, lav, van. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, al, an, la, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-l-n-v" | |
+1 letter: vandals. | |
+2 letters: valanced, vandalic. | |
+3 letters: vandalise, vandalism, vandalize. | |
+4 letters: adenoviral, avalanched, galavanted, galivanted, galvanised, galvanized, invalidate, validating, validation, vandalised, vandalises, vandalisms, vandalized, vandalizes. | |
+5 letters: adventitial, devaluating, devaluation, gallivanted, inadvisable, invalidated, invalidates, invalidator, transvalued, unavoidable, unavoidably, unevaluated, validations, vandalising, vandalistic, vandalizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 6E 64 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- -. -.. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a n d a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 006E 0064 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)566780706778 |
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