| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun hangman.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (hangman) |
1. An executioner who hangs the condemned person.[Wordnet]. 2. 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.[Websters]. | |
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Date "Hangmen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: (1) BULL is the earliest hangman whose name survives (about 1593). 2: (9) ROSE, the butcher (1686): but Jack Ketch was restored to office the same year. 3: (7) SQUIRE DUN, mentioned by Hudibras (part iii. c. 2). 4: (6) RICHARD BRANDON, his son, who executed Charles I. 5: (5) GREGORY BRANDON, (about 1648). 6: (3) DERRICK, who cut off the head of Essex in 1601. 7: (4) GREGORY. Father and son, mentioned by Sir Walter Scott (1647). 8: Hangmen and Executioners. 9: (2) JOCK SUTHERLAND. 10: (8) JACK KETCH (1678) executed Lord Russell and the Duke of Monmouth. 11: (10) EDWARD DENNIS (1780), introduced as a character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. 12: (11) THOMAS CHESHIRE, nicknamed "Old Cheese." 13: (12) JOHN CALCRAFT; MARWOOD; BERRY; etc. 14: (13) Of foreign executioners, the most celebrated are Little John; Capeluche, headsman of Paris during the terrible days of the Armagnacs and Burgundians; and the two brothers Sanson, who were executioners during the first French Revolution. 15: Hudibras, under the name of Dun, "personates" Sir Arthur Hazelrig, "the activest" of the five members impeached by King Charles I. The other four were Monk, Walton, Morley, and Alured. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Hangmen Also Die | Hangmen Also Die was a 1943 film directed by the legendary German director Fritz Lang with a script by Bertolt Brecht and John Wexley. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: HANGMEN | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hangmen Also Die | 25 | Hangmen Also Die | 25 | |
| The Hangmen | 6 | Stalin and His Hangmen | 6 | |
| Stalin and His Hangmen | 6 | The Hangmen | 6 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | سَيَّاف (hangman, hangmen, headsman), شانِق (executioner, executioners, hangman, hangmen, headsman). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | سَيَّاف (hangman, hangmen, headsman), شانِق (executioner, executioners, hangman, hangmen, headsman). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | سَيَّاف (hangman, hangmen, headsman), شانِق (executioner, executioners, hangman, hangmen, headsman). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | hangmen (hangmen). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 刽子手 (executioner, headsman, executioners, hangman, hangmen). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Traditional | 劊子手 (executioner, executioners, hangman, hangmen, headsman). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | Henkers (hangmen), Henkern (hangmen). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | bourreau (executioner, hangman, hangmen, tormentor, bloodhound). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | bourreau (executioner, hangman, hangmen, tormentor, bloodhound). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | Henkers (hangmen), Henkern (hangmen). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | سَيَّاف (hangman, hangmen, headsman), شانِق (executioner, executioners, hangman, hangmen, headsman). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | Henkers (hangmen), Henkern (hangmen). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | Henkers (hangmen), Henkern (hangmen). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | hangmen (hangmen). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hangmen. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
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