forgery
English
Etymology
Recorded since recorded 1574; from the verb to forge, from Middle English, via Anglo-Norman forger from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricari "to frame, construct, fabricate", itself from fabrica 'workshop; construction', from faber 'workman, smith'
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːɹ.dʒəɹ.ɪ/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
forgery (countable and uncountable, plural forgeries)
- The act of forging metal into shape.
- the forgery of horseshoes
- The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
- the forgery of a bond
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
- Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
- (archaic) An invention, creation.
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Translations
the act of forging metal into shape
the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely
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that which is forged or counterfeited
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invention — see invention
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