name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
swindler
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈswɪnd.lə(ɹ)/
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rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: S W IH1 N D AH0 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: S W IH1 N D L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger, cony-catcher, crammer, deceiver, deceptor, fabricator, fabulist, falser, gabber, grifter, guiler, liar, losenger, mocker, pseudologist, rook, Scandaroon, shammer, Spanish athlete, swindler, swike, treacher, trickster, trucker, wernard, bunco-steerer, charlatan, jackal, chiseler, cozener, defrauder, finagler, fleecer, fraud, fraudmeister, fraudster, humbug, goldbrick, gull, gyp, landshark, pickpenny, scammer, scamp, schemester, sharper, slicker, spieler, trapan, trepan
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
Narrower terms: cardsharp, card sharp, cardsharper, card sharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy, card shark, clip artist, confidence man, con man, con artist, welcher, welsher
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774.
Across languages
Translations
79 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُحْتَال (muḥtāl) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Azerbaijani: fırıldaqçı — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Catalan: estafador — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Catalan: estafadora — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Chinese Mandarin: 騙子 /骗子 (piànzi) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Chinese Mandarin: 江湖騙子 /江湖骗子 (jiānghú piànzi) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Czech: podvodník — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Czech: šejdíř — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Czech: švindlíř — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Dutch: zwendelaar — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Dutch: zwendelaarster — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Esperanto: fikomercisto — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Finnish: huijari — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Finnish: petkuttaja — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- French: escroc — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- French: aigrefin — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- French: margoulin — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Galician: moinante — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Galician: estafador — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Galician: caloteiro — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- German: Schwindler — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- German: Schwindlerin — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- German: Gauner — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- German: Gaunerin — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- German: Betrüger — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- German: Betrügerin — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Greek: κομπιναδόρος (kompinadóros) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Ancient Greek: φέναξ (phénax) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Hindi: ठग (ṭhag) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Hungarian: csaló — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Hungarian: szélhámos — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Hungarian: svindler — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Hungarian: szédelgő — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Indonesian: penipu — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Indonesian: bajingan — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Indonesian: pecundang — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Italian: ingannatore — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Italian: defraudatore — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Italian: ciarlatano — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Italian: gabbatore — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Italian: truffatore — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Japanese: 詐欺師 (sagishi) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Kazakh: алаяқ (alaäq) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Northern Kurdish: hîleker — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Northern Kurdish: xapîner — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Ladino: dolandiridji — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Ladino: dalaveradji — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Ladino: batakchi — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Ladino: kazikchi — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Latin: fraudātor — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Macedonian: измамник (izmamnik) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Macedonian: трчилаж (trčilaž) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Māori: kaitāware — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Marathi: ठग (ṭhag) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Marathi: उपटणारा — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Marathi: उपट्या (upaṭyā) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Norman: aigrefîn — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Plautdietsch: Schwindla — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Polish: szuler — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Polish: oszust — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Portuguese: caloteiro — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Portuguese: estelionatário — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Russian: моше́нник (mošénnik) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Russian: моше́нница (mošénnica) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Russian: жу́лик (žúlik) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Russian: афери́ст (aferíst) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Russian: афери́стка (aferístka) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Spanish: estafador — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Spanish: chapucero — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Spanish: defraudador — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Spanish: engañabobos — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Spanish: trapacero — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Swahili: mlaghai — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Swedish: svindlare — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Tagalog: balasubas — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Turkish: dolandırıcı — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Welsh: twyllwr — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Welsh: twyllwraig — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Yiddish: שווינדלער (shvindler) — person who swindles, cheats or defrauds