Hun
a 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.
(often lowercase) a barbarous, destructive person; vandal.
Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.
Origin of Hun
1usage note For Hun
Other words from Hun
- Hunlike, adjective
Words Nearby Hun
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How to use Hun in a sentence
Director Yoo Dong-Hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPrime Minister Hun Sen had taken power in a bloody coup in July 1997.
‘The Accidental Terrorist’: a California Accountant’s Coup | Adam Piore | May 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe might have elicited a smile rather than a cringe had he gone to that reliable standby, “to the right of Attila the Hun.”
Analyzing the Political Humor of Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney | Mark Katz | February 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTLeakhena Hun, a 22-year-old student, said she is one of few Khmers her age who are following the trial.
Show Trials Bring Cambodia Delayed Justice, but Where’s the Outrage? | Lennox Samuels | November 30, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTI always felt Attila The Hun set the clearest path for himself, what would today be called his “mission statement.”
But as year after year rolled away, Uncle Gambo would still say, "I'se a Hun'erd and ten yeah ole."
Maid Sally | Harriet A. CheeverYou will see the permanently crippled and those that wait for death, a slow and lingering death from the Hun's poisonous gases.
Private Peat | Harold R. PeatThe Red Cross floated over the building, but that emblem of mercy made no difference to the Hun.
Private Peat | Harold R. PeatThe neighbors coming in to see the strange discovery, tore one of the pieces to atoms, in the true Hun and Vandal style.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 | Hubert Howe BancroftIn Germany hunne means giant, and the term “Hun,” meant radically anyone formidable or gigantic.
Archaic England | Harold Bayley
British Dictionary definitions for Hun
/ (hʌn) /
a member of any of several Asiatic nomadic peoples speaking Mongoloid 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 a.d
informal (esp in World War I) a derogatory name for a German (def. 2)
informal a vandal
Origin of Hun
1Derived forms of Hun
- Hunlike, adjective
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