Hun
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hun in British English:
UK [hʌn]
How to pronounce Hun in American English:
US [ hʌn]
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- Noun:
- a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century
- offensive terms for a person of German descent
Word Origin
- Hun
- Old English, person from a tribe from central Asia that overran Europe in the 4c. and 5c., from Medieval Latin Hunni, apparently ultimately from Turkic Hun-yü, the name of a tribe (they were known in China as Han or Hiong-nu). Figurative sense of "reckless destroyer of beauty" is from 1806. Applied to the German in World War I by their enemies because of stories of atrocities, but the nickname originally was urged on German soldiers bound for China by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, which caused a scandal.
Example
- 1. Prime minister hun sen and his allies control several outlets .
- 2. Prime minister hun sen has often sided with beijing on key regional security issues .
- 3. Attila the hun used large molosser breeds in his campaigns .
- 4. Despite international concern , mr hun sen 's plea for un intervention seems a non-starter .
- 5. Yet that is the lesson mr hun sen has spent three decades drumming into cambodia 's opposition : life is unfair .