Definition of Counterfeiter

1. Noun. Someone who makes copies illegally.

Exact synonyms: Forger
Specialized synonyms: Coiner, Paperhanger
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Derivative terms: Counterfeit, Forge

Definition of Counterfeiter

1. n. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.

Definition of Counterfeiter

1. Noun. A person who counterfeits ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Counterfeiter

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterfeiter

counterexample
counterexamples
counterexploitation
counterextension
counterface
counterfaces
counterfactors
counterfactual
counterfactuality
counterfactually
counterfactuals
counterfaisance
counterfeisance
counterfeit
counterfeited
counterfeiter (current term)
counterfeiters
counterfeiting
counterfeitly
counterfeitness
counterfeitress
counterfeitresses
counterfeits
counterfeminist
counterfeminists
counterfesance
counterfigure
counterfigures
counterfire
counterfires

Literary usage of Counterfeiter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... Obstacle to the counterfeiter—The Automatic Register—Keeping Watch—The Counters and Examiners—Supplying the Bank Note Companies—"The American'' and "The ..."

2. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"... Litigious vagrant: counterfeiter. Case of paraphrenia tematica. Case 72. Manual Rizzo is, no doubt, a victim of so-called paraphrenia systematica, ..."

3. A History of My Time: Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier by Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Edme Armand Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1893)
"... the detective, discovers a counterfeiter — The manufacture on an extended scale of counterfeit notes of the Bank of Russia aud of the Bank of Vienna, ..."

4. The Works of Charles Paul de Kock, with a General Introduction by Jules Claretie by Paul de Kock (1904)
"CHAPTER XA counterfeiter AND A MURDERER. A CROW PERCHED ON A TREE CLEMENTINE, on returning from her eventful .valk, had at first had the intention of ..."

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