impostor

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɒstə/
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• General-American: /ɪmˈpɑstɚ/
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒstə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P AO1 S T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, respelled in the Latin manner; ultimately from Latin impositor, agent form of Latin imponere (“to impose”).

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: iruzurti — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Belarusian: самазва́нец (samazvánjec) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Bulgarian: измамник (izmamnik) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Bulgarian: мошеник (mošenik) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Catalan: impostor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Chinese Mandarin: 冒充者 — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Chinese Mandarin: 騙子 /骗子 (piànzi) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Czech: podvodník — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Czech: hochštapler — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Czech: napodobitel — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Danish: bedrager — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Dutch: bedrieger — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Dutch: bedriegster — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Esperanto: trompanto — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Faroese: kritlari — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Faroese: svikari — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Faroese: svindlari — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Finnish: huijari — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Finnish: toiseksi tekeytyjä — someone who uses an assumed identity
• French: imposteur — someone who uses an assumed identity
• French: impostrice — someone who uses an assumed identity
• French: imposteuse — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Galician: impostor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Georgian: თვითმარქვია (tvitmarkvia) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• German: Hochstapler — someone who uses an assumed identity
• German: Betrüger — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Hebrew: מתחזה (mitkhazé) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Hindi: कपटी (kapṭī) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Hindi: ढोंगी (ḍhoṅgī) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Hungarian: szélhámos — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Hungarian: csaló — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Hungarian: imposztor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Irish: mealltóir — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Italian: impostore — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Japanese: 偽者 (nisemono) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Khmer: អ្នកក្លែងបន្លំ (nĕək klaeng bɑnlɑm) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Korean: 사기꾼 (sagikkun) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Latin: planus — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Latvian: viltvārdis — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Lithuanian: apgavikas — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Lithuanian: apsimetėlis — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Macedonian: само́званец (samózvanec) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Macedonian: и́змамник (ízmamnik) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Norwegian Bokmål: bedrager — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svindlar — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Polish: impostor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Polish: samozwaniec — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Polish: hochsztapler — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Portuguese: impostor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Portuguese: impostora — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Romanian: impostor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Romanian: impostoare — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Russian: самозва́нец (samozvánec) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Serbo-Croatian: samozvanac — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Serbo-Croatian: varalica — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Spanish: impostor — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Spanish: impostora — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Swedish: bedragare — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Ottoman Turkish: آینهجی (aynacı) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Ukrainian: самозва́нець (samozvánecʹ) — someone who uses an assumed identity
• Ukrainian: самозва́нка (samozvánka) — someone who uses an assumed identity