This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years' spell of penal servitude.
Source: tatoeba (6980610)
Forger
Synonyms for "forger" (88 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (44)
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1 entriescapable of
3 entriesderived from
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8 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- կեղծարար noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кова́ч noun (person who forges metals)
- фалшифика́тор noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Catalan
2 entries- forjador noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- forjador noun (person who forges metals)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 偽造者 /伪造者 noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Czech
1 entries- padělatel noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Danish
1 entries- forfalsker noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Dutch
1 entries- vervalser noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Finnish
2 entries- väärentäjä noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- väärentäjä noun (person who forges metals)
French
4 entries- faussaire noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- forgeron noun (person who forges metals)
- forgeronne noun (person who forges metals)
- forgeur noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
German
4 entries- Fälscher noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- Fälscherin noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- Schmied noun (person who forges metals)
- Schmiedin noun (person who forges metals)
Hebrew
1 entries- זַיְפָן noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Hungarian
1 entries- hamisító noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Ingrian
1 entries- takoja noun (person who forges metals)
Italian
2 entries- falsaria noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- falsario noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Japanese
1 entries- 偽造者 noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Korean
1 entries- 위조자 noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Latgalian
1 entries- kaļvs noun (person who forges metals)
Latin
1 entries- falsārius noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Latvian
1 entries- kalējs noun (person who forges metals)
Middle English
2 entries- forger noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- forger noun (person who forges metals)
Polish
2 entries- fałszerka noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- fałszerz noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Portuguese
4 entries- falsificador noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- falsificadora noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- forjador noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- forjador noun (person who forges metals)
Russian
4 entries- кова́ль noun (person who forges metals)
- кузне́ц noun (person who forges metals)
- подде́лыватель noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- фальсифика́тор noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Spanish
4 entries- falsaria noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- falsario noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- falsificador noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
- falsificadora noun (person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud; counterfeiter)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The sudden outflow of counterfeit notes from the bank alerted investigators to an expert forger on the inside.
Source: tatoeba (13639237)
Rumors spread that the forger had bribed the guards at the palisade with expertly faked coins, buying himself safe passage.
Source: tatoeba (13639240)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.