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vandals

vandals is the plural of vandal.

Meaning of vandal

Noun

vandal (plural vandals)

  1. A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property.
    • Vandals spray-painted obscenities on the side of the building.

See all 4 meanings of vandal

Proper noun capitalized: Vandals

the Vandals

  1. An east Germanic tribe that once lived in north Africa and sacked Rome.
  2. (archaic, historical) Any of various Balto-Slavic peoples, such as the Vistula Veneti, Wends, Lusatians or Poles.

Noun capitalized: Vandals

Vandals

  1. (plural) plural of Vandal; members of the Vandal tribe.

Questions about vandals

What does vandals mean?
Vandals means an east Germanic tribe that once lived in north Africa and sacked Rome.
What is vandals the plural of?
Vandals is the plural of vandal.
What part of speech is vandals?
Vandals can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near vandals in the dictionary

  1. Vandall
  2. Vandalls
  3. vandalous
  4. vandalously
  5. vandalproof
  6. vandals
  7. Vandam
  8. Vandams
  9. Vandana
  10. vandas
  11. Vandeberg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vandals (page history and authors); Vandals (page history and authors); vandal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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