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Impostor
//ɪmˈpɒstə// noun
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Noun
- 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.""
- 2 a person who makes deceitful pretenses wordnet
- 3 A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.
- 4 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)."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, respelled in the Latin manner; ultimately from Latin impositor, agent form of Latin imponere (“to impose”).
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