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Webster 1828 Edition
Impostor
IMPOS'TOR
,Noun.
One who imposes on others; a person who assumes a character for the purpose of deception; a deceiver under a false character. It seems to be yet unsettled,whether Perkin Warbeck was an impostor. A religious impostor may be one who assumes the character of a preacher, without authority; or one who falsely pretends to an extraordinary commission from heaven,and terrifies people with denunciations of judgments.
Definition 2024
impostor
impostor
English
Alternative forms
Noun
impostor (plural impostors)
- Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “I said he had a criminal face.” “He can't help his face.” “He can help being a crook and an impostor. Calls himself a butler, does he? The police could shake that story. He's no more a butler than I am.”
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Synonyms
- impersonator
- See also Wikisaurus:deceiver
Translations
someone who uses assumed identity
Portuguese
Noun
impostor m (plural impostores, feminine impostora, feminine plural impostoras)
- impostor (someone who uses a false identity)