Definitions for Hangman
ˈhæŋ mənhang·man

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hangmannoun

   an executioner who hangs the condemned person

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hangmannoun

   An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.

2. hangmannoun

   A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hangmannoun

   The publick executioner.

   Etymology: hang and man.

   This monster sat like a hangman upon a pair of gallows; in his right hand he was painted holding a crown of laurel, and in his left hand a purse of money. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   One cried, God bless us! and amen! the other;
   As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands:
   Listening their fear, I could not say amen,
   When they did say God bless us. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid’s bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him. William Shakespeare.

   Who makes that noise there? Who are you?
   —— Your friend, sir, the hangman: you must be so good, sir, to rise, and be put to death. William Shakespeare, Meas. for Measure.

   Men do not stand
   In so ill case, that God hath with his hand
   Sign’d kings blank charters to kill whom they hate;
   Nor are they vicars, but hangmen to fate. John Donne.

   I never knew a critick, who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers, that was not guilty of greater himself; as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand. Joseph Addison, Whig Examiner.

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1. hangman

   Hangman is a popular word guessing game usually played between two or more players. One player thinks of a word, phrase or sentence and the other player(s) attempts to guess it by suggesting letters within a certain number of guesses. Traditionally, for each incorrect guess a part of a stick figure of a man being hanged on a gallows is drawn. The game ends when the word has been guessed or the stick figure is completely drawn signifying all guesses have been exhausted.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hangmannoun

   one who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office

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1. Hangman

   Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word, phrase or sentence and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers.

Matched Categories

1. • Executioner

How to pronounce Hangman?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Hangman in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hangman in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hangman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Hangman in a Sentence

1. Johann Most:

   When state and government have gone, laws must go. People who speak of “laws” in a communistic society, think perhaps only of those general rules of sensible and noble conduct which every good man finds it easy to observe. But in that case they use a wrong word. A law is a rule connected with an apparatus to compel obedience. Behind the law stand the court, the sheriff, the police, the hangman, etc., and who wants them? None, we guess.

2. Hassan Choughari:

   The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE, and the HANGMAN.

3. William Kunstler:

   You can crucify a Jesus, you can poison a Socrates, you can hang John Brown or Nathan Hale, you can kill a Che Guevara, you can jail a Eugene Debs or a Bobby Seale. You can assassinate John Kennedy or a Martin Luther King, but the problems remain, the hangman's rope never solved a single problem except that of one man.

4. Terry Schappert:

   We had all these different kinds of shots against hangman’s ropes, with the period guns you saw in the film, to get to use those weapons and to play the role of Clint Eastwood in those scenes, it was so much fun.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Hangman
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hangman
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Hangman
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hangman
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Hangman