Definitions for vandals

vandals van·dal

Spelling: [van-dl]
IPA: /ˈvæn dl/

Vandals is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in vandals (aadlnsv).

Definitions for vandals

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 vandals

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

Examples for vandals

Much harm was done by the Goths and vandals of the nineteenth century.

When the warriors came from Frisland with Franks and vandals.

The first of the Teutonic states to fall was the kingdom of the vandals.

Goths, vandals, Huns, each in their own good time had joined in the attack.

The country is stuck with the vandals, and vandalism is all they can commit, because that is who they are.

Thus are they doomed to destruction, by a Lilliputian race of vandals.

vandals have defaced them with red paint splotches that look like bullet holes oozing with blood.

Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said.

But there is a strong resolve to vote despite the risk, a fierce determination to vanquish the vandals.

As Andrew Sullivan wrote yesterday, a word I re-used on television last night, they are vandals.

Word Value for vandals
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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