villain

  1. Noun.  (rfc-sense) (rfquote-sense) A vile, wicked person.
  2. Noun.  The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
  3. Noun.  (archaic) A villain was in a low level of medieval serfdom. A cotter may have been lower.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.