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impostor

noun
/ɪmˈpɒstə/UK/ɪmˈpɑstɚ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, respelled in the Latin manner; ultimately from Latin impositor, agent form of Latin imponere (“to impose”).

  1. derived from impositor
  2. borrowed from imposteur

Definitions

  1. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

    • "It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."
    • “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.”

  2. A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the…

    A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.

  3. A term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.

    • Interestingly, Wang shows that Chinese allows the appearance of an indexical pronoun alongside the imposter, as in (31).
    • One possibility is that mothers of HR [higher-risk] infants frequently use non-pronoun forms in place of pronouns, as in the impostor uses noted above.

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Derived

imposterous, impostorism, impostor phenomenon, impostorship, impostor syndrome, impostress, impostrix, supernova impostor

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for impostor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA