hang

1. 1.

   be suspended or hanging

   “The flag hung on the wall”

   Narroweroverhangdangle
2. 2.

   cause to be hanging or suspended

   “Hang that picture on the wall”

   Synonymshang up

   Broaderfasten

   Narrowersuspendsling
3. 3.

   kill by hanging

   “The murderer was hanged on Friday”

   Synonymsstring up

   Broaderexecute

   Narrowerhaltergibbet
4. 4.

   let drop or droop

   “Hang one's head in shame”

   Broaderdrop
5. 5.

   fall or flow in a certain way

   “This dress hangs well”

   “Her long black hair flowed down her back”

   Synonymsfallflow
6. 6.

   be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive

   “This worry hangs on my mind”

   “The cloud of suspicion hangs over her”

   Broaderbe

   Narrowerbrood
7. 7.

   give heed (to)

   “The children in the audience attended the recital quietly”

   “She hung on his every word”

   “They attended to everything he said”

   Synonymsattendadvertpay heedgive ear

   Broaderlisten

   Narrowerfixate
8. 8.

   be suspended or poised

   “Heavy fog hung over the valley”
9. 9.

   hold on tightly or tenaciously

   “hang on to your father's hands”

   “The child clung to his mother's apron”

   Synonymscling

   Broadergrasp
10. 10.

    be exhibited

    “Picasso hangs in this new wing of the museum”
11. 11.

    prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury

    Broaderobstruct
12. 12.

    decorate or furnish with something suspended

    “Hang wallpaper”

    Broaderdecorate
13. 13.

    be placed in position as by a hinge

    “This cabinet door doesn't hang right!”
14. 14.

    place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction

    “hang a door”

    Broaderfasten
15. 15.

    suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste

    “hang the venison for a few days”

    Broaderdecompose

1. 1.

   a special way of doing something

   “he had a bent for it”

   “he had a special knack for getting into trouble”

   “he couldn't get the hang of it”

   Synonymsbentknack

   Broaderendowment
2. 2.

   the way a garment hangs

   “he adjusted the hang of his coat”

   Broaderfit
3. 3.

   a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms

   Broadergymnastic exercise

   Narrowerbent hanginverted hanglever hangreverse hangstraight hang

Other forms of hang

plural

hangs·

past tense or participle

hung

present participle

hanging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hang

What does hang mean?

hang means "be suspended or hanging". That is the primary sense; the word has 18 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hang?

hang has 1 syllable: hang. In IPA it is /ˈhæŋ/.

What is another word for hang?

Close synonyms include hang up, string up, fall, flow, attend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hang a common word?

hang is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hang?

1 word rhymes with hang. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.