HUN


Meaning of HUN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhən ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English Hunas, plural, from Late Latin Hunni, plural

Date: before 12th century

1. : a member of a nomadic central Asian people gaining control of a large part of central and eastern Europe under Attila about A.D. 450

2.

a. often not capitalized : a person who is wantonly destructive : vandal

b. usually disparaging : german ; especially : a German soldier

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.