charlatan

char·la·tan

C0250600 (shär′lə-tən)n. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.

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[French, from Italian ciarlatano, probably alteration (influenced by ciarlare, to prattle) of cerretano, inhabitant of Cerreto, a city of Italy once famous for its quacks.]

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char′la·tan′ic (-tăn′ĭk), char′la·tan′i·cal adj.char′la·tan·ism, char′la·tan·ry n.

charlatan

(ˈʃɑːlətən) nsomeone who professes knowledge or expertise, esp in medicine, that he or she does not have; quack[C17: from French, from Italian ciarlatano, from ciarlare to chatter] ˈcharlatanˌism, ˈcharlatanry n ˌcharlatanˈistic adj

char•la•tan

(ˈʃɑr lə tn)

n. a person who pretends to special knowledge or skill that he or she does not possess; quack; fraud. [1595–1605; < Middle French < Italian ciarlatano, b. ciarlatore chatterer and cerretano hawker, quack, literally, native of Cerreto a village in Umbria] char′la•tan•ism, char′la•tan•ry, n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

charlatan - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokesmountebankbeguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not truecraniologist, phrenologist - someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skullquack - an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

charlatan

noun fraud, cheat, fake, sham, pretender, quack, con man (informal), impostor, fraudster, swindler, mountebank, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), phoney or phony (informal) This so-called psychic was exposed as a charlatan.

charlatan

nounOne who fakes:fake, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack.

Translations

Scharlatancharlatanciarlatano