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PRONUNCIATION OF HEADMEN

headmen  [ˈhedmen] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEADMEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Headmen 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 HEADMEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Headmen

The Headmen is a group of fictional supervillains in the Marvel Comics universe. They first appeared in The Defenders #21.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEADMEN


coachmen
ˈkəʊtʃˌmen
congressmen
ˈkɒŋɡrɪsˌmen
countrymen
ˈkʌntrɪˌmen
craftsmen
ˈkrɑːftsˌmen
dogmen
ˈdɒɡˌmen
doormen
ˈdɔːˌmen
Dutchmen
ˈdʌtʃˌmen
firemen
ˈfaɪəˌmen
henchmen
ˈhentʃmen
hodmen
ˈhɒdmen
madmen
ˈmædmen
roadmen
ˈrəʊdmen
servicemen
ˈsɜːvɪsmen
showmen
ˈʃəʊmen
snowmen
ˈsnəʊmen
sportsmen
ˈspɔːtsmen
tradesmen
ˈtreɪdzmen
upperclassmen
ˌʌpəˈklɑːsmen
watchmen
ˈwɒtʃmen
yachtsmen
ˈjɒtsmen

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEADMEN

headline rate of inflation
headline-grabbing
headliner
headlines
headlock
headlong
headman
headmaster
headmasterly
headmastership
headmistress
headmistressship
headmistressy
headmost
headnote
headphones
headpiece
headpin
headquarter
headquartered

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEADMEN

admen
badmen
birdmen
coastguardmen
deadmen
freedmen
goodmen
husbandmen
orchardmen
sandmen
woodmen

Synonyms and antonyms of headmen in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HEADMEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «headmen» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of headmen
chief · chieftain · head · leader · lord · master · ruler

Translation of «headmen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEADMEN

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

Translator English - Chinese

头人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jefes
570 millions of speakers

English

headmen
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

headmen
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

headmen
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

старосты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

chefes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হেডম্যান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chefs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketua
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Häuptlinge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

headmanの複数形
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

족장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepala
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

headmen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தலைவர்களாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रमुख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Muhtarlardan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

headmen
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naczelników
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

старости
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

headmen
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προεστούς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoofmanne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hövdingar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

landsbyledere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of headmen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADMEN»

The term «headmen» is regularly used and occupies the 101.648 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADMEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «headmen» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «headmen» 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 headmen

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEADMEN»

Discover the use of headmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to headmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reports from the committees
I. Particulars relative to the Appointment of Headmen by Captain Watson. II. Disa_fl'ection of the Headmen ; part taken by them in the Insurrection. Ill. How far they might be associated with the Government. IV. Papers laid before the Committee ...
Great Britain House of Commons, 1851
2
Fishing Villages in Tokugawa, Japan
that year the number of district headmen was reduced to two,4 but seemingly the workload became too heavy and a third headman was appointed in 1770. From then onwards there were three district headmen, two for the 'upper' villages ...
Arne Kalland, 1995
3
Political Anthropology
Headmen usually represent minor or major lineage segments; parish chiefs represent major segments or subtribes; sub- county chiefs represent the larger subtribes or clusters of small subtribes; and county chiefs represent clusters of ...
Marc J. Swartz, Victor Witter Turner, Arthur Tuden, 1972
4
The Yao Village: A Study in the Social Structure of ...
Origin of Villages which have arrived in the Kawinga- Liwonde area since the White Conquest and are still there 61 V. Numbers of Village Headmen who are Aborigines, Invaders and Newcomers ........ 65 VI. Religious Affiliation of Aborigine, ...
James Clyde Mitchell, 1966
5
Seeking Viable Grassroots Representation Mechanisms in ...
Headmen or tindhuna are classified into a number of categories: (1) officially appointed headmen by the government and therefore recipients of government subsidies; (2) officially recognized headmen appointed by chiefs and (3) non- officially ...
Charles Mwalimu, 2009
6
Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian, Jaya, Indonesia: ...
The bulk of the information available concerns the headmen at Dore but these reports are by no means unanimous. From Gronovius' report it is impossible to deduce whether or not a particular hierarchy existed among the headmen he ...
Jelle Miedema, Cecilia Odé, Rien A. C. Dam, 1998
7
War and State Building in Medieval Japan
The form and contents of these memos indicate that the system of consensual decision making was developing in the Kumamoto family's local administration, with village headmen functioning as the basic unit. The system of village headmen ...
John Ferejohn, Frances Rosenbluth, 2010
8
Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities ...
An assessment of the lists of warranted customary courts in Botswana, combined with interviews of members of local communities and tribal authorities, provides an indication of the number and distribution of official headmen in remote areas.
Alexander Laban Hinton, 2010
9
Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics & Popular ...
that their weight was never very clearly distributed, on the whole the contribution of chiefs and headmen in 1914 was broadly collaborationist. Chiefs and headmen, together with leading 'school' people, had become fairly well absorbed into ...
William Beinart, Colin Bundy, 1987
10
Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the ...
istrates in the commissions appointed to decide which forests should be demarcated and reserved for government and which should fall strictly under headmen's control.132 Furthermore, headmen's depictions in council sessions of  ...
Jacob A. Tropp, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEADMEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term headmen is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Winnipeg journalist Sheila North Wilson to run for MKO grand chief
All chiefs, headmen and councillors of member First Nations are eligible to vote. North Wilson has been working as a reporter at CTV Winnipeg ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Magnitude 4.8 quake strikes Kanchanaburi's Sangkhlaburi district
There is no report of damages yet but Sangkhla district chief ordered all local authorities and village headmen to inspect their responsible ... «ThaiVisa News, Jul 15»
3
Bimbilla region has a history of ethnic violence
Individuals, headmen, village chiefs, sub-chiefs and divisional chiefs who visited their king were obliged to present a gift to the King. Another ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
4
Thai police on alert in far South amid fear of more attacks
Village headmen and kamnans also set up checkpoints in surrounding areas with roads linking to three southernmost provinces. In related ... «ThaiVisa News, Jul 15»
5
Circumcision SA style – the unkindest cut of all
Last month the government upped by more than 28% the annual payment for the country's 5,000 headmen and women to R84,125. Similarly ... «Thought Leader, Jul 15»
6
Be dedicated to your tasks, community leaders told
At the event, two Penghulus, two Pemancas and 11 headmen received their appointment certificates. Telang Usan assemblyman Dennis Ngau, ... «The Borneo Post, Jul 15»
7
Autonomous District Council members sworn in
... Jiandai, BJP State executive members, party members of NPF and BJP, civil society leaders and headmen were present in the function. «KanglaOnline, Jul 15»
8
Hypocrites unless excos quit, Selangor DAP calls PAS after divorce …
“The ties and cooperation in the state government based on positions such as executive councillors, local councillors and village headmen will ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
9
Zanu PF plots new MDC-T city siege
... and district administrators, as well as traditional chiefs — Zanu PF's electoral kingpins in its rural strongholds — and headmen, among others. «Nehanda Radio, Jul 15»
10
Cabinet Reshuffle: Mugabe plans for 2018
... provincial and district, administrators chiefs and other traditional leaders such as headmen critical in mobilising voters during campaigns. «Nehanda Radio, Jul 15»

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