Meaning

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

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    самозва́нецsamozvánec

    самозва́нецьsamozvánecʹ, самозва́нкаsamozvánka

  2. 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.

More definitions
  • a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Tom is an impostor.

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  2. The impostor has been caught.

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  3. I felt like an impostor.

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  4. I feel like an impostor.

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  5. That impostor called himself a doctor.

    ruТот самозванец выдавал себя за врача.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
someone who uses an assumed identity:
Русский
By meaning 1
someone who uses an assumed identity:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone who uses an assumed identity:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, respelled in the Latin manner; ultimately from Lati

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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