Hun

Hun n.

Language Varieties, Ancient Historya member of a nomadic and warlike Asian people who devastated or controlled large parts of eastern and central Europe and who exercised their greatest power under Attila in the 5th century a.d.
Slang Terms(often l.c.) a barbarous, destructive person;
vandal.
[Disparaging and Offensive.]
- a German soldier in World War I or II.
- a German.

bef. 900; 1895–1900 for def. 3b; singular of Huns, Old English Hūnas; cognate with Old Norse Hūnar; akin to Late Latin Hunnī

Hun′like′, adj.

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Hun /hʌn/ n

a member of any of several Asiatic nomadic peoples speaking Mongolic or Turkic languages who dominated much of Asia and E Europe from before 300 bc, invading the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries ad
informal
(esp in World War I) a derogatory name for a German
informal a vandal

Etymology: Old English Hūnas, from Late Latin Hūnī, from Turkish Hun-yūˈHunˌlike adj

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