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vandal 音标拼音: [v'ændəl] n. 汪达尔人;文化艺术的破坏者 汪达尔人;文化艺术的破坏者 vandal n 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 455Vandal \ Van" dal\, Vandalic \ Van* dal" ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness. [ 1913 Webster]
Vandal \ Van" dal\, n. [ L. Vandalus, Vandalius; of Teutonic origin, and probably originally signifying, a wanderer. Cf. { Wander}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( Anc. Hist.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature, or anything valluable. [ 1913 Webster] The Vandals of our isle, Sworn foes to sense and law. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] Vandal42 Moby Thesaurus words for " vandal": animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hoodlum, hooligan, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, lout, man- eater, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, ravager, ruffian, ruiner, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, wild man, wrecker
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