HANGMAN


Meaning of HANGMAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhaŋ-mən ]

noun

Date: 14th century

1. : one who hangs a condemned person ; also : a public executioner

2. : a game in which the object is for one player to guess the letters of an unknown word before the player who knows the word creates a stick figure of a hanged man by drawing one line for each incorrect guess

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.