gunman
/ˈɡʌnmən/
gunman noun: a person armed with a gun, especially a gunned evildoer.
Noun
gunman (plural gunmen)
- A person armed with a gun, especially a gunned evildoer.
- "I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."1921, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in To The Last Man
- Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse.2012 March 22, “Mohamed Merah: Who was Toulouse gunman?”, in BBC
- An American.
gunman meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
gunman in Hindi
- criminal armed with a gun
- बंदूक़धारी bandūqdhārī
gunman in Tamil
- துப்பாக்கி ஏந்தியவர், துப்பாக்கிதாரி
gunman in Urdu
- بندوق باز
gunman in Telugu
- తుపాకీ దుండగుడు
More languagesFewer languages
- gunman in Malayalam
- തോക്കുധാരി, ആയുധധാരിയായ കൊള്ളക്കാരൻ, ശസ്ത്രഗ്രാഹി, ശസ്ത്രധരൻ
- gunman in Kannada
- ಬಂದೂಕು ಹಿಡಿದ ದರೋಡೆಕೋರ, ಬಂದೂಕುಧಾರಿ
- gunman in Gujarati
- બંદૂકધારી bandūkdhārī
- gunman in Thai
- มือปืน mʉʉ-bpʉʉn
Examples of gunman in a sentence
- The policeman's first two shots went wild before he took down the gunman with his third.
- The police urged the gunman to lay down his weapon.
- The gunman, Nikolas Cruz, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Forms of gunman
| plural | gunmen |
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Origin of gunman
From gun + -man.
Words formed from gunman
Questions about gunman
- What does gunman mean?
- Gunman means a person armed with a gun, especially a gunned evildoer.
- What is gunman in Hindi?
- Gunman in Hindi is बंदूक़धारी (bandūqdhārī). See Gunman meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gunman?
- Gunman is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gunman?
- Gunman is pronounced /ˈɡʌnmən/.
- What is the plural of gunman?
- The plural of gunman is gunmen.
Words near gunman in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gunman (page history and authors); gunman (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gunman (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gunman (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gunman (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gunman (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બંદૂકધારી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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