Vandal
['vænd(ə)l] or ['vændl]
Definition
(noun.) someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.
(noun.) a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455.
Typist: Lottie--From WordNet
Definition
(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
Inputed by Jenny
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Barbarian, savage.
a. Barbarous, savage, Vandalic.
Typed by Gordon
Definition
n. one of a fierce race from north-eastern Germany who entered Gaul about the beginning of the 5th century crossed the Pyrenees into Spain (leaving their name in Andalusia=Vandalitia) next under Genseric crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and carried devastation and ruin from the shores of the Atlantic to the frontiers of Cyrene: any one hostile to arts or literature a barbarian.—adjs. Van′dal Vandal′ic barbarous rude.—n. Van′dalism hostility to arts or literature.
Checker: Witt
Examples
- He was also urged to attack the Eastern empire by Genseric the Vandal, who was faced by an alliance of the Western and Eastern emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of the Vandal kingdom in Africa we have already written; and Italy, still in its population and habits Roman, came under the rule of the Ostrogoths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The whole Vandal nation, men, women, and children, that came from Spain to Africa, for example, did not number more than eighty thousand souls. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Vandal kingdom was recovered in 534; the Goths were expelled from Italy in 553. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the time of its greatest extent (477) this Vandal kingdom included also Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balearic Isles, as well as much of North Africa. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Manifestly the Vandals came in as a positive relief to such a system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fresh Vandals, more Goths, Alans, Suevi, marched freely westward, living upon the country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As we have told, he reconquered the African province from the Vandals and most of Italy from the Goths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Instead, we see the Vandals becoming masters of the western Mediterranean without so much as a naval battle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Where the trees were sparse and the foliage was thin, the same cheerful band of vandals marked the spots E to indicate that there it would be easy to run the wires. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In Portugal and north of the Vandals in Spain were Visigoths and Suevi. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the latter par t of the fourth century the Roman Empire had been overrun by the Visigot hs, the Vandals, the Huns, the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, and other barbarians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Visigoths (or West Goths) followed the example of the Vandals, and made arrangements to cross the Danube into Roman territory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was while the Vandals were still in Africa that a great leader, Attila, arose among the Huns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Wyatt