vengeance

1. 1.

   the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

   “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord”

   “For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge”

   “he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him”

   “the swiftness of divine retribution”

   Synonymsretributionpayback

   Broaderretaliation

Other forms of vengeance

plural

vengeances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vengeance

What does vengeance mean?

vengeance means "the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life".

How many syllables are in vengeance?

vengeance has 2 syllables: ven-geance. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /ˈvɛndʒəns/.

What is another word for vengeance?

Close synonyms include retribution, payback. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vengeance a common word?

vengeance is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.