Hangman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.
  • n. A game in which one player chooses a word whose letters are guessed at by another player. For each wrong guess, a new part of the stick figure of a hanging man is drawn.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
  • n. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who hangs another; a public executioner: sometimes used merely as a term of reproach.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an executioner who hangs the condemned person
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    public executioner    executioner   
    Cross Reference
    hangman's day    hanging    hangman's noose   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    jack ketch    ketch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    headsman    executioner    gallows    vampyre   
     
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