CHARLATAN: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'shârlutn
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| Matching Terms: | | Charlatanic, charlatanism, Charlatanry
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes |
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| | Synonyms: | | mountebank |
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| | See Also: | | beguiler, cheat, cheater, craniologist, deceiver, phrenologist, quack, slicker, trickster | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Char"la*tan\, n. [F. charlatan, fr. It. ciarlatano,
fr. ciarlare to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It.
zirlare to whistle like a thrush.]
One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable
pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
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| | Related Terms: | | blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatanic, charlatanish, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud, horse doctor, humbug, impersonator, impostor, malingerer, medicaster, medicine man, medicine monger, mountebank, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, quackish, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer |
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