PERSONATE
\pˈɜːsənˌe͡ɪt], \pˈɜːsənˌeɪt], \p_ˈɜː_s_ə_n_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of PERSONATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
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pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
By Princeton University
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pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
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To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
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To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
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To personify; to typify; to describe.
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Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
By Oddity Software
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To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
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To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
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To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
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To personify; to typify; to describe.
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Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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To assume the person or character of: to represent: to counterfeit: to feign.
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PERSONATION, PERSONATOR.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To represent by an assumed character; to assume the character and act the part of; to counterfeit; to resemble.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In bot., a form of monopetalous corolla where the orifice of the tube is closed by an inflated projection of the throat, the whole resembling a gaping mask.
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To assume the character of another, and in such a way as to pass for that person; to counterfeit; to feign; to play a fictitious character.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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