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  2. a person who intentionally damages property belonging to other people: Vandals smashed windows and overturned cars in the downtown shopping district. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Miscellaneous criminals.

  3. The meaning of VANDAL is a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and the Oder rivers, overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d., and in 455 sacked Rome. How to use vandal in a sentence.

  4. Vandal definition: a member of a Germanic people who in the 5th century a.d. ravaged Gaul and Spain, settled in Africa, and in a.d. 455 sacked Rome.. See examples of VANDAL used in a sentence.

  5. A vandal is someone who deliberately damages things, especially public property.

  6. a person who deliberately destroys or damages public property. Vandals broke into the factory and set fire to a cabin. The glass has been specially treated to stop vandals from smashing it. Extra Examples. Topics Crime and punishment b2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin, of Germanic origin. The current sense dates from the mid 17th cent.

  7. n. 1. vandal One who willfully or maliciously defaces or destroys public or private property. 2. A member of a Germanic people that overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries ad and sacked Rome in 455. [Latin Vandalus, Vandal, probably of Germanic origin.] Van·dal′ic (văn-dăl′ĭk) adj.

  8. What does the word Vandal mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word Vandal . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.