Meanings
Sauron1
- 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.
plural Saurons
- An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]
2004 January 8, “The story goes on being relevant”, in Birmingham Evening Mail2 more examples
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.
2007 February, “Overload”, in GameAxis Unwired, page 12Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.
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, published 2013, →ISBN, page 196
- alternativeastronomyAlternative form of SAURON.
SAURON2
Origin
Sauron · proper noun, noun, proper noun
From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).
Full word history & related roots →SAURON · proper noun
Backronym inspired by the type of radio object it falls under, the ORCs, and the master of orcs in Tolkien literature, Sauron. Coined in 2022 by the discovery team made up of researchers from MeerKAT, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), and University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian Саурон
- Саурон (Sauron)title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Polish Sauron
- Saurontitle character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
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Cite this entry
Sauron. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sauron
“Sauron.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sauron. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sauron,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sauron.
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