"vigilante" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.ɪˈlæn.ti/ [UK], /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.ɪˈlɑːn.teɪ/ [UK], /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.əˈlæn.ti/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vigilante.wav [Southern-England] Forms: vigilantes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|vigilante||watchman, guard}} Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), {{der|en|la|vigilans|}} Latin vigilans, {{doublet|en|vigilant}} Doublet of vigilant Head templates: {{en-noun}} vigilante (plural vigilantes)
  1. A member of a vigilance committee. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
    Sense id: en-vigilante-en-noun-yAYa-t0j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16
  2. A person who acts outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc. Categories (topical): People Translations (person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law): 義務警員 (Chinese Mandarin), 义务警员 (yìwù jǐngyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 治安會會員 (Chinese Mandarin), 治安会会员 (zhì'ānhuì huìyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), lid van een waakzaamheidscomité (Dutch), eigenrechter (Dutch), sjálvrættarmaður (Faroese), omankädenoikeuden käyttäjä (Finnish), justicier [masculine] (French), Mitglied einer Bürgerwehr [neuter] (German), Vigilant [masculine, rare] (German), βιτζιλάντε (vitzilánte) (Greek), εθελοντής φρουρός (ethelontís frourós) (Greek), εκδικητής (ekdikitís) (Greek), önbíráskodó (Hungarian), önkéntes/önjelölt polgárőr (Hungarian), önkényes igazságosztó/rendfenntartó (Hungarian), 自警団員 (jikeidan'in) (alt: じけいだんいん) (Japanese), but see samozwańczy obrońca [masculine] (Polish), justiceiro [masculine] (Portuguese), дружи́нник (družínnik) [masculine] (Russian), дружи́нница (družínnica) (english: member of a voluntary public order squad) [feminine] (Russian), виджила́нте (vidžilántɛ) [US, feminine, masculine] (Russian), член «комите́та бди́тельности» (alt: člen «komitéta bdítelʹnosti») [masculine] (Russian), титу́шка (titúška) [feminine, masculine, neologism] (Russian), хунвэйби́н (xunvɛjbín) [masculine] (Russian), черносо́тенец (černosótenec) (note: historically member of "Black Hundred") [masculine] (Russian), охотноря́дец (oxotnorjádec) [masculine] (Russian), погро́мщик (pogrómščik) [masculine] (Russian), justiciero [masculine] (Spanish), ศาลเตี้ย (sǎan-dtîia) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-vigilante-en-noun-RmRejSiA Disambiguation of People: 3 97 Disambiguation of 'person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law': 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: vigilantism, digilante

Inflected forms

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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jikeidan'in",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "word": "自警団員"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "but see samozwańczy obrońca"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "justiceiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "družínnik",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дружи́нник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "member of a voluntary public order squad",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "družínnica",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дружи́нница"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vidžilántɛ",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "виджила́нте"
    },
    {
      "alt": "člen «komitéta bdítelʹnosti»",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "член «комите́та бди́тельности»"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "titúška",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neologism"
      ],
      "word": "титу́шка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xunvɛjbín",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хунвэйби́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "historically member of \"Black Hundred\"",
      "roman": "černosótenec",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "черносо́тенец"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oxotnorjádec",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "охотноря́дец"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pogrómščik",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "погро́мщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "justiciero"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sǎan-dtîia",
      "sense": "person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law",
      "word": "ศาลเตี้ย"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "vigilante"
  ],
  "word": "vigilante"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": hongweibing vs. xunvɛjbín",
  "path": [
    "vigilante"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "vigilante",
  "trace": ""
}

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