- a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
- a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
- a person or thing considered to be the cause of something bad: Fear is the villain that can sabotage our goals.
- villein.
- a wicked or malevolent person
- (in a novel, play, film, etc) the main evil character and antagonist to the hero
- a mischievous person; rogue
- a criminal
- history a variant spelling of villein
- an uncouth person; boor
