Množina: vandals
ETYM Latin Vandalus, Vandalius; of Teutonic origin, and probably originally signifying, a wanderer. Related to Wander.
Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.
Množina: Vandals
A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455.
Member of a Germanic people related to the Goths. In the 5th century AD the Vandals invaded Roman Gaul and Spain, many settling in Andalusia (formerly Vandalitia) and others reaching N Africa 429. They sacked Rome 455 but were defeated by Belisarius, general of the emperor Justinian, in the 6th century.