VANDAL

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

1. 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

  Familiarity information: VANDAL used as a noun is rare.

• VANDAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Derivation:

vandalise; vandalize (destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)

 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)

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)