English Dictionary

hangman

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(countable) An executioner responsible for hanging criminals. / Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.

日本語の意味

絞首刑を執行する処刑人 / 美術館やギャラリーなどで、絵画や工芸品などを展示するために掛ける人

The hangman tightened the noose and walked solemnly to the scaffold as the townspeople watched in silence.

絞首刑執行人は縄を締め、厳かに足場へ歩み寄り、町の人々は沈黙の中で見守った。

意味（1）

(countable) An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.

One cried, God bless us! and Amen the other, As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.

意味（2）

Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc.

I also asked some Royal Academicians to view it, viz. Northcote, Cosway, &c. who approved of it much: it is well composed, and beautifully coloured; but the hangmen at the Exhibition have not hung it in a conspicuous situation; it is placed in an ante-room, and pretty high […].

意味（3）

(uncountable, games) 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.

hangmen （ plural ）