{"def":{"lit":"magnificent","short":"Haman, a Persian vizier","long":["chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai"]},"deriv":"of foreign derivation","pronun":{"ipa":"hɔːˈmɔːn̪","ipa_mod":"hɑːˈmɑːn","sbl":"hāmān","dic":"haw-MAWN","dic_mod":"ha-MAHN"}}