Counterfeiter
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A person who counterfeits.
"Sensations abound in this exciting melodramatic production dealing with the life of a French adventureress, madly in love with a counterfeiter, whom she betrays when she learns he has secretly wedded a famous female detective, only to aid him to escape when the officers are about to arrest him."
- 2 someone who makes copies illegally wordnet
Example
More examples"Sensations abound in this exciting melodramatic production dealing with the life of a French adventureress, madly in love with a counterfeiter, whom she betrays when she learns he has secretly wedded a famous female detective, only to aid him to escape when the officers are about to arrest him."
Etymology
From counterfeit + -er.
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