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hatchment

/ˈhæt͡ʃmənt/

hatchment noun: a display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall.

hatchment: a display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black...
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Noun

hatchment (plural hatchments)

  1. A display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
    • No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Street, in which gloomy locality death seems...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

hatchment meaning in Tamil

hatchment in Tamil

மரபுச்சின்னங்களைத் தாங்கிய கேடயம்

Forms of hatchment

pluralhatchments

Origin of hatchment

From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement (“adornment”) (related to Italian accismare); not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.

Words that rhyme with hatchment

Questions about hatchment

What does hatchment mean?
Hatchment means a display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall.
What is hatchment in Tamil?
Hatchment in Tamil is மரபுச்சின்னங்களைத் தாங்கிய கேடயம். See Hatchment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hatchment?
Hatchment is a noun.
How do you pronounce hatchment?
Hatchment is pronounced /ˈhæt͡ʃmənt/.
What is the plural of hatchment?
The plural of hatchment is hatchments.

Words near hatchment in the dictionary

  1. hatchlike
  2. hatchling
  3. hatchlings
  4. hatchman
  5. hatchmen
  6. hatchment
  7. hatchments
  8. hatcht
  9. hatchure
  10. hatchures
  11. Hatchville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatchment (page history and authors); hatchment (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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