Meaning of Sauron | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor.
2. An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
3. Acronym of steep and uneven ring of non-thermal radiation, an ORC (“odd radio circle”) found in the southern sky.
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Examples

“'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]”

“For aspiring Saurons and Darth Sidiouses, the game allows the player to fill the boots of a big evil Overlord with a handful of minions to start out with.”

“Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.”

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