Darth Vader
Pronunciation
  • (British) enPR: därthʹ vāʹdər, IPA: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)θ ˈveɪ.də(ɹ)/
Noun

Darth Vader

  1. A powerful individual or force, particularly one that is seen as malevolent, dominating and threatening.
    • 2004, Robert Whiting, The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime, p. 130:
      Irabu had hired Nomura, a man with whom he obviously had a great deal in common, and, who, as we have seen, was rapidly becoming the Darth Vader of Japanese baseball.
    • 2003, Marleen S. Barr, Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium, p. xvii:
      Bush's missile shield plan positions him as Darth Vader.
    • 2002, James Price Dillard, Michael Pfau, The Persuasion Handbook: the Persuasion Handbook (c): Developments in Theory and Practice, p. 611:
      Commonly assumed to exert massive effects on the electorate, political spots (notably negative ones) have been teasingly called the Darth Vader of modern politics...
    • 1998, Jon Lewis, The New American Cinema, p. 108:
      In two different speeches the vice president called Malone, alternately “the Darth Vader of the cable industry,” and “[the man who runs] the cable Cosa Nostra.”
  2. (informal, British, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 460 train.
Translations
  • French: Dark Vador
  • German: Darth Vader
  • Italian: Dart Fener
  • Portuguese: Darth Vader
  • Russian: Дарт Ве́йдер
  • Spanish: Darth Vader
Proper noun
  1. Darth Vader, the villain of the science-fantasy film series Star Wars.



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