vandal
n.
one who purposefully destroys or damages something that is beautiful or something that belongs to someone else
Vandals
Vandal
Noun
1. a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455
(hypernym) savage, barbarian
vandal
Noun
1. someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
(hypernym) destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
(derivation) vandalize, vandalise
vandal
n.
vandal
Vandal
(n.)
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.
(n.)
Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
(a.)
Alt. of Vandalic
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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