Definitions for pretender

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pretender pre·tend·er

Spelling: [pri-ten-der]

IPA: /prɪˈtɛn dər/

Pretender is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in pretender (deeenprrt).

Definitions for pretender

noun

1. a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
2. an aspirant or claimant (often followed by to):
3. a person who makes unjustified or false claims, statements, etc., as about personal status, abilities, intentions, or the like:

Origin of pretender

First recorded in 1585-95; pretend + -er¹

Examples for pretender

And yet you see after all I am like to turn out only a pretender.

And cancer, deceiver, pretender, coward; it cannot even subsist without the vibrant people it depends on.

Some say the pretender was in the battle, and wounded; but others say he was not.

All was jolly and genial between the king of late night and the pretender to the throne.

A particular account of the "pretender's Magazine" is extant.

Rush Limbaugh has called Dede Scozzafava a “pretender” and an “extreme liberal Republican” who “might as well be a Democrat.”

The General asked him "if he had been along with the pretender?"

The moment might be propitious to the pretender, however false his claim.

He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.

Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the pretender?