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vendetta

Syllables: ven·det·ta/vɛnˈdɛtə/US[vɛnˈdɛɾə]

vendetta noun: revenge.

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Noun

vendetta (plural vendettas or vendette)

  1. Revenge.
  2. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.
    • The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations.
  3. A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.
    • personal vendetta
    • blood vendetta

vendetta meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

vendetta in Tamil

bitter, destructive feud in which each injury is revenged
பரம்பரைப்பகை paramparaippakai

vendetta in Urdu

خاندانی دشمنی, خونی بدلہ, رقابت

vendetta in Bengali

রক্তের প্রতিশোধ, তীব্র শত্রুতা

vendetta in Malayalam

bitter, destructive feud in which each injury is revenged
ബന്ധുഹത്യാപ്രതികാരം bandhuhatyāpratikāraṁ
More languagesFewer languages
vendetta in Kannada
ಕಡುಹಗೆತನ kaḍuhagetana, ಮನೆತನದ ಹಗೆತನ manetanada hagetana
vendetta in Tagalog
rido
vendetta in Persian
دشمنی خونی došmani-e xuni, کینخواهی kin-xâhi
vendetta in Vietnamese
thù máu

Forms of vendetta

pluralvendettas
pluralvendette

Plural of vendetta: vendettas or vendette

Origin of vendetta

Borrowed from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. See vindicate, avenge.

Words formed from vendetta

Words that rhyme with vendetta

15 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about vendetta

What does vendetta mean?
Vendetta means revenge.
What is vendetta in Tamil?
Vendetta in Tamil is பரம்பரைப்பகை (paramparaippakai). See Vendetta meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vendetta?
Vendetta is a noun.
How do you pronounce vendetta?
Vendetta is pronounced /vɛnˈdɛtə/.
What is the plural of vendetta?
The plural of vendetta is vendettas.

Words near vendetta in the dictionary

  1. vendee
  2. vendees
  3. vender
  4. Vendergood
  5. venders
  6. vendetta
  7. vendettas
  8. vendette
  9. Vendetti
  10. Vendettis
  11. vendettist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vendetta (page history and authors); vendetta (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vendetta (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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