Definitions for Hun

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Hun Hun

Spelling: [huhn]

IPA: /hʌn/

Hun is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in Hun (hnu).

Definitions for Hun

noun

1. a member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
2. (often lowercase) a barbarous, destructive person; vandal.
3. Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.

Origin of Hun

before 900; 1895-1900 for def 3; singular of Huns, Old English Hūnas; cognate with Old Norse Hūnar; akin to Late Latin Hunnī

Examples for Hun

If that is theosophy, I will believe it when I am old, fat and a Hun.

Prime Minister Hun Sen had taken power in a bloody coup in July 1997.

Incidentally, it kept the Hun from coming out and bombing us.

He might have elicited a smile rather than a cringe had he gone to that reliable standby, “to the right of Attila the Hun.”

I wish to God I were back there and the Hun was still resisting.

The fellow is therefore one-eighth Dane and seven-eighths Hun.

The invasions of the Hun shook to its centre the western empire.

What made that great bunch of Yankee boys turn back the Hun hordes?

They were all labelled with names, Hun or Hebrew, usually both.

I always felt Attila The Hun set the clearest path for himself, what would today be called his “mission statement.”