Definitions for Vandal

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Vandal van·dal

Spelling: [van-dl]

IPA: /ˈvæn dl/

Vandal is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Vandal (aadlnv).

Definitions for Vandal

noun

1. (initial capital letter) a member of a Germanic people who in the 5th century a.d. ravaged Gaul and Spain, settled in Africa, and in a.d. 455 sacked Rome.
2. a person who willfully or ignorantly destroys or mars something beautiful or valuable.

adjective

1. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Vandals.
2. imbued with or characterized by vandalism.

Origin of Vandal

First recorded in 1545-55, vandal is from the Late Latin word Vandalus, Latinized tribal name

Examples for Vandal

It roused the vandal in him—he longed to break her, mar her.

I looked upon my father as a Byzantian sage might have looked on a vandal.

The vandal had known his way about in a laboratory, that was obvious.

Luce paused in her task of placing the knives and forks to look at the vandal.

Some vandal has broken nearly every pane of glass in the house!

Congratulations," reads Letterbombing.com in its welcoming headline, "You're about to become an Internet vandal.

Mayor Bloomberg agreed that the “vandal” must be caught and charged with vandalism.

But if there had ever been one, it had decayed or been removed by some vandal as a relic.

“We shall but exchange a Goth for a vandal,” his wife replied.

In the manner of a vandal, he has slain for profit or sport.