"vandalism" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈvændəlɪzm̩/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vandalism.wav Forms: vandalisms [plural]
Etymology: From French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. By surface analysis, vandal + -ism. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|vandalisme}} French vandalisme, {{surf|en|vandal|-ism}} By surface analysis, vandal + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} vandalism (countable and uncountable, plural vandalisms)
  1. Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement. Wikipedia link: Henri Grégoire, Sack of Rome (455) Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: vandalization Derived forms: antivandalism, cybervandalism Related terms: vandal, vandalise, vandalize Translations (needless damage or destruction of property): تَخْرِيب (taḵrīb) [masculine] (Arabic), vandalizm (Azerbaijani), вандалі́зм (vandalízm) [masculine] (Belarusian), вандали́зъм (vandalízǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), vandalisme [masculine] (Catalan), 蓄意破壞 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓄意破坏 (xùyìpòhuài) (Chinese Mandarin), vandalizm (Crimean Tatar), vandalismus [masculine] (Czech), vandalství [neuter] (Czech), vandalisme [common-gender] (Danish), hærværk [neuter] (Danish), vandalisme [neuter] (Dutch), vandalismo (Esperanto), vandalism (Estonian), vandalismi (Finnish), ilkivalta (Finnish), vandalisme [masculine] (French), vandalismo [masculine] (Galician), ვანდალიზმი (vandalizmi) (Georgian), ბარბაროსობა (barbarosoba) (Georgian), Vandalismus [masculine] (German), βανδαλισμός (vandalismós) [masculine] (Greek), ונדליזם [masculine] (Hebrew), vandalizmus (Hungarian), skemmdarverk [neuter] (Icelandic), spjöll [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), vandaleso (Ido), vandalajo (Ido), vandalismo (Interlingua), loitiméireacht [feminine] (Irish), vandalismo [masculine] (Italian), 荒らし (arashi) (Japanese), ヴァンダリズム (vandarizumu) (Japanese), 반달리즘 (bandallijeum) (Korean), corruptiō [feminine] (Latin), ruptiō [feminine] (Latin), vandalismus [masculine] (Latin), вандали́зам (vandalízam) [masculine] (Macedonian), ди́вјаштво (dívjaštvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), vandalisme (Malay), hærverk [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), vandalisme [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hærverk [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), wandalizm [masculine] (Polish), vandalismo [masculine] (Portuguese), vandalism [neuter] (Romanian), вандали́зм (vandalízm) [masculine] (Russian), вандалѝзам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vandalìzam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vandalismo [masculine] (Spanish), gamberrada [feminine] (Spanish), vandalism [common-gender] (Swedish), bandalismo (Tagalog), pambababoy (Tagalog), གཅག་གཏོར་བྱེད་ཡག (gcag gtor byed yag) (Tibetan), vandalizm (Turkish), вандалі́зм (vandalízm) [masculine] (Ukrainian), phá hoại (Vietnamese), vandalöm (Volapük), fandaliaeth [feminine] (Welsh)
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          "code": "sv",
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          "word": "vandalism"
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          "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
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          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
          "word": "pambababoy"
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        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "gcag gtor byed yag",
          "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
          "word": "གཅག་གཏོར་བྱེད་ཡག"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
          "word": "vandalizm"
        },
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        },
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          "code": "vi",
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          "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
          "word": "phá hoại"
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          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
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          "code": "cy",
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        "Sack of Rome (455)"
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        "Terms with Crimean Tatar translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Interlingua translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Tibetan translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Volapük translations",
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      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
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      ],
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      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalizm"
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      "roman": "vandalízm",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "roman": "vandalízǎm",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вандали́зъм"
    },
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      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vandalisme"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "蓄意破壞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xùyìpòhuài",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "蓄意破坏"
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    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalizm"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalismus"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vandalství"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vandalisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hærværk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vandalisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalism"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalismi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "ilkivalta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "vandalizmi",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "ვანდალიზმი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "barbarosoba",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "ბარბაროსობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Vandalismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vandalismós",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "βανδαλισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ונדליזם"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "skemmdarverk"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "spjöll"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandaleso"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalajo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "loitiméireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "arashi",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "荒らし"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "vandarizumu",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "ヴァンダリズム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bandallijeum",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "반달리즘"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "corruptiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ruptiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vandalízam",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вандали́зам"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "dívjaštvo",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ди́вјаштво"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hærverk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hærverk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wandalizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "vandalism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vandalízm",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вандали́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вандалѝзам"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalìzam"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gamberrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vandalism"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "bandalismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "pambababoy"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "gcag gtor byed yag",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "གཅག་གཏོར་བྱེད་ཡག"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vandalízm",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вандалі́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "phá hoại"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "word": "vandalöm"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "needless damage or destruction of property",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fandaliaeth"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vandalism"
}

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