Villains Wiki:Villain (definition)

vil⋅lain

noun


 * 1) a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.
 * 2) a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.
 * 3) something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil: poverty, the villain in the increase of crime.
 * 4) (villein) a member of a class of partially free persons under the feudal system, who were serfs with respect to their lord but had the rights and privileges of freemen with respect to others.