An executioner who beheads people.
An executioner who beheads people.
The Headman and the Principal of the school have taken care that the children do not learn anything and that education does not make any progress in this region.
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An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
(obsolete, or, Scotland) A chief person; a head man.
A male professional killer or gunman.
(colloquial, idiomatic) A male who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees.
(informal, rare, mostly, India) headmaster.
But then Nash speaks to the school headman on Josie's behalf and persuades him to admit my youngest son.
"headman" means: headmaster.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"headman" means: headmaster.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. Note the regional or dialect label (rare) — usage may sound odd outside that variety. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.