vengeance
Syllables: ven·geance/ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/
vengeance noun: revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
Noun
vengeance (countable and uncountable, plural vengeances)
- Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 28
- My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.2000, Gladiator (film)
- Desire for revenge.
- Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC
- If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]2008, Jean Harvey Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, →ISBN
vengeance meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
vengeance in Hindi
- revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong
- प्रतिशोध pratiśodh
vengeance in Tamil
- பழி எதிர்வினை, பழிக்குப் பழி, பழிக்குப் பழி வாங்கல், பழிக்குப்பழி வாங்குதல், பழியுணர்வு, பழி தீர்ப்பு
vengeance in Urdu
- بدلہ, بیر, انتقام, جزا, کینہ
vengeance in Bengali
- প্রতিহিংসা
More languagesFewer languages
- vengeance in Malayalam
- പ്രതികാരം pratikāraṁ
- vengeance in Kannada
- ಮುಯ್ಯಿ, ಸೇಡು, ಪ್ರತೀಕಾರ, ಪ್ರತಿಹಿಂಸೆ
- vengeance in Odia
- ପ୍ରତିହିଂସା
- vengeance in Arabic
- ثَأْر ṯaʔr, اِنْتِقَام intiqām
- vengeance in Malay
- balas dendam
- vengeance in Indonesian
- balas dendam
- vengeance in Persian
- انتقام enteqâm
- vengeance in Vietnamese
- sự trả thù
Examples of vengeance in a sentence
- The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.
- And then someone crosses her so she has a vengeance to play out.”
- But the vengeance I told myself I was getting for Wrex felt like a lie.
Synonyms of vengeance
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Forms of vengeance
| plural | vengeances |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | vengeaunce |
Origin of vengeance
From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance.
Words formed from vengeance
Questions about vengeance
- What does vengeance mean?
- Vengeance means revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
- What is vengeance in Hindi?
- Vengeance in Hindi is प्रतिशोध (pratiśodh). See Vengeance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vengeance?
- Vengeance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce vengeance?
- Vengeance is pronounced /ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/.
- What is the plural of vengeance?
- The plural of vengeance is vengeances.
Words near vengeance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vengeance (page history and authors); vengeance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vengeance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vengeance (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vengeance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vengeance (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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