HUN

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• HUN (noun)
  The noun HUN has 2 senses:

1. a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century

2. offensive term for a person of German descent

  Familiarity information: HUN used as a noun is rare.

• HUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Hun" is a kind of...):

nomad (a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Offensive term for a person of German descent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Boche; Hun; Jerry; Kraut; Krauthead

Hypernyms ("Hun" is a kind of...):

German (a person of German nationality)

Domain usage:

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

 Context examples 

You are indeed, cried Ford, laughing, a Goth, Hun, and Vandal, with all the other hard names which the old man called us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I dare say that I could throw myself over a precipice, like the Hun in the history books, if my courage to do it were questioned, and yet it would surely be pride and fear, rather than courage, which would be my inspiration.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Take a Goth, a Hun, and a Vandal, mix them together and add a Barbary rover; then take this creature and make him drunk—and you have an Englishman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then he would pass through the land of the Almains and the great Roman Empire, and so to the country of the Huns and of the Lithuanian pagans, beyond which lies the great city of Constantine and the kingdom of the unclean followers of Mahmoud.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert. Fools, fools!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)