English

Noun

Sauron ‎(plural Saurons)

1. An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
   • 2004, "The story goes on being relevant", Birmingham Evening Mail, 8 January 2004:

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

   • 2007, "Overload", GameAxis Unwired, February 2007, page 12:

     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.

   • 2013, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander G. Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, & Alexander Jenkins, Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular, University of Chicago Press (2013), ISBN 9780226062495, page 196:

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

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Sauron.

Derived terms

• Sauronesque

Finnish

Noun

sauron

1. Genitive singular form of sauro.

Anagrams

• suoran