The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
A sometimes public event at which a person is hanged.
The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins or posters).
The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.