n. Fault; mistake; error: as, a vice of method.n. An imperfection; a defect; a blemish: as, a vice of conformation; a vice of literary style.n. Any immoral or evil habit or practice; evil conduct in which a person indulges; a particular form of wickedness or depravity; immorality; specifically, the indulgence of impure or degrading appetites or passions: as, the vice of drunkenness; hence, also, a fault or bad trick in a lower animal, as a horse.n. Depravity; corruption of morals or manners: in a collective sense and without a plural: as, an age of vice.n. Depravity or corruption of the physical organization; some morbid strife of the system: as, he inherited a constitutional vice which resulted in consumption.n. Viciousness; ugliness; mischievousness.n. [capitalized] The stock buffoon in the old English moralities, or moral plays, sometimes having the name of one specific vice, as Fraud, Envy, Covetousness, sometimes of Vice in general. See Iniquity, 4.n. Synonyms and Iniquity, etc. See crime.See vise.n. A vice-chairman, vice-president, or other substitute or deputy, the principal or primary officer being indicated by the context.In the place of; instead of: a Latin noun used in a position which gives it, as transferred to English, the effect of a preposition governing the following noun: as, Lieutenant A is gazetted as captain, vice Captain B promoted.A prefix denoting, in the word compounded with it, one who acts in place of another, or one who is second in rank: as, vice-president, vice-chancellor.