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PRONUNCIATION OF HANGMEN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HANGMEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hangmen is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HANGMEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hangman (game)

Hangman /ˈhæŋmæn/ 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.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HANGMEN

hanging
hanging basket
hanging committee
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
hanging glacier
hanging indentation
hanging judge
hanging offence
hanging pawn
hanging plant
hanging valley
hanging wall
hanging wardrobe
hangman
hangnail
hangover
hangry
hangtag
Hanguk
hangul

WORDS THAT END LIKE HANGMEN

bagmen
bogmen
dogmen
flagmen
frogmen
legmen
pigmen
ragmen
strongmen
swagmen
tegmen
tithingmen
wingmen
workingmen

Synonyms and antonyms of hangmen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hangmen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HANGMEN

Find out the translation of hangmen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hangmen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hangmen» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

刽子手
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

verdugos
570 millions of speakers

English

hangmen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hangmen
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجلادون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

палачи
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

carrascos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hangmen
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bourreaux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hangmen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Henker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hangmen
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hangmen
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hangmen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Treo cổ chúng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்வில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Hangmen
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cellâtlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

boia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kaci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

călăii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δήμιοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

laksmanne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hangmen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hangmen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hangmen

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HANGMEN»

The term «hangmen» is regularly used and occupies the 99.323 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HANGMEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hangmen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hangmen» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hangmen

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANGMEN»

Discover the use of hangmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hangmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
Written with grace, passion, and a dazzling command of the intricacies of Soviet politics and society, Stalin and the Hangmen is a devastating indictment of the individuals and ideology that kept Stalin in power. From the Hardcover edition.
Donald Rayfield, 2007
2
13 Hangmen
Moving to a new home in Boston at the same time he turns thirteen, Tony DiMarco befriends four boys from different time periods who each lived in his attic bedroom and who help him to catch a murderer, solve a mystery, and find a hidden ...
Art Corriveau, 2013
3
Montana's Righteous Hangmen: The Vigilantes in Action
This is the story of Montana Territory in the last half of the nineteenth century, when a massive influx of gold seekers brought murderers and robbers into the region and forced the creation of an organization of law-abiding citizens known ...
Llewellyn Link Callaway, Lew L. Callaway, Merrill G. Burlingame, 1997
4
Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen: Crime and Punishment in ...
This detailed study of the criminal justice system in Victorian Britain highlights the dilemmas facing those responsible for administering justice and protecting society from "the criminal."
David Taylor, 2010
5
Two Hangmen, One Scaffold Book II. in the Hangman's Shadow
When a correlation emerges between a prophecy and a police investigation, and a kidnapper maintains his presence at a crime scene, a woman dreads the passage of time.
Basil Diki, 2012
6
Pierrepoint - A Family of Executioners: The Story of ...
Between them, they carried out an amazing 900 executions. This book recounts the lives and tales of the Pierrepoint family, their reasons for taking up the profession, and the inside details of the execution cases and the deeds themselves.
Steven Fielding, 2008
7
Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen
Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen tells the stories of the men who worked with their deadly skills at Tyburn tree or at the scaffolds in the prison yards across the country.
Stephen Wade, 2009
8
Hangmen Motorcycle Club
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hangmen Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club that was founded in Richmond, California in 1960.
Zheng Cirino, 2011
9
Yorkshire's Hangmen
That was where highwayman Dick Turpin met his fate; but later, in the Victorian period, Armley Gaol in Leeds also became a hanging prison, the site of the death of the notorious killer Charlie Peace. the tales of the villains and the ...
Stephen Wade, 2008
10
Hangmen Also Die!
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hangmen Also Die! is a 1943 war film directed by the Austrian director Fritz Lang and written by John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht and Lang.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANGMEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hangmen is used in the context of the following news items.
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In Bruges director Martin McDonagh returns to Royal Court with new …
The Royal Court theatre will stage McDonagh's new play Hangmen, telling the story of Britain's second best-known executioner on the day in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
A shortage of robins
And if Secretary Cromwell argues that famine promotes criminality: well are there not hangmen enough.” —1535 London. from "Bringing Up ... «The Daily Gazette, Jul 15»
3
POLITICO Playbook: GREECE SNUBS EUROPE: Chaos, misery …
As Mr. Rubio has intensified his opposition, Cubans have begun to view him as the most prominent of American hangmen." http://nyti.ms/ ... «Pulse, Jul 15»
4
Rubio Hammers NY Times for Claiming He's Cuba's 'Least Favorite …
As the Florida senator intensified his opposition, Cubans have begun to view him as “the most prominent of American hangmen.” “'He wants to ... «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
5
Marco Rubio Is Hardly a Hero in Cuba. He Likes That.
As Mr. Rubio has intensified his opposition, Cubans have begun to view him as the most prominent of American hangmen. “He wants to kill us! «New York Times, Jul 15»
6
Boji Bay Fun House features three acts
Country rock's Marshall County Hangmen call State Center home and they just returned from recording at the famed Muscle Shoals Alabama ... «Dickinson County News, Jun 15»
7
June month for commemoration, reflection
German soldiers volunteered to be the hangmen of the 99 men killed that afternoon. Other soldiers looked on, seated at the terrace of a cafe ... «Republican & Herald, Jun 15»
8
Kirk Kerkorian and new Armenia met and made fun of hangmen's
YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS. The President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan attended a ceremony in memory of great ... «Armenpress.am, Jun 15»
9
Confederate flag debate important, but a side issue to what …
In April, a Livonia man put a huge Confederate flag on his back fence and put hangmen's nooses in his tree. You know what that meant. But the ... «Michigan Radio, Jun 15»
10
Resistance is there in award-winning “Timbuktu”
... into stereotypical villains, instead wishing to show that those who are one's “neighbors one day, might be one's hangmen the next.” He also ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Jun 15»

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