noun
Meaning 1
One who usurps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: usurpator
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
usurper
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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General-American: /juˈsɜɹ.pəɹ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /juˈzɜː.pə/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
noun
Meaning 2
one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: supplanter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wrongdoer, offender
Narrower terms: claim jumper
History
Etymology
From Middle English usurper, usurpour, usurpur, from Middle French usurpeur; equivalent to usurp + -er.
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: غَاصِب (ḡāṣib) — one who usurps
- Arabic: مُبْتَزّ (mubtazz) — one who usurps
- Arabic: مُغْتَصِب (muḡtaṣib) — one who usurps
- Arabic: مُنْتَزِع (muntaziʕ) — one who usurps
- Armenian: ուզուրպատոր (uzurpator) — one who usurps
- Belarusian: узурпа́тар (uzurpátar) — one who usurps
- Bulgarian: узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) — one who usurps
- Catalan: usurpador — one who usurps
- Chinese Mandarin: 僭主 (jiànzhǔ) — one who usurps
- Chinese Mandarin: 篡位者 (cuànwèizhě) — one who usurps
- Chinese Mandarin: 篡奪者 /篡夺者 (cuànduózhě) — one who usurps
- Chinese Mandarin: 篡權者 /篡权者 (cuànquánzhě) — one who usurps
- Czech: uzurpátor — one who usurps
- Czech: uchvatitel — one who usurps
- Danish: tronraner — one who usurps
- Danish: usurpator — one who usurps
- Dutch: usurpator — one who usurps
- Dutch: machtsovernemer — one who usurps
- Estonian: usurpaator — one who usurps
- Finnish: vallananastaja — one who usurps
- Finnish: usurpaattori — one who usurps
- French: usurpateur — one who usurps
- French: usurpatrice — one who usurps
- Galician: usurpador — one who usurps
- Georgian: უზურპატორი (uzurṗaṭori) — one who usurps
- German: Usurpator — one who usurps
- German: Usurpatorin — one who usurps
- Greek: σφετεριστής (sfeteristís) — one who usurps
- Hungarian: bitorló — one who usurps
- Icelandic: valdaræningi — one who usurps
- Ido: uzurpero — one who usurps
- Ido: uzurpinto — one who usurps
- Ido: uzurpanto — one who usurps
- Irish: anlaith — one who usurps
- Irish: forghabhálaí — one who usurps
- Irish: forlámhaí — one who usurps
- Italian: usurpatore — one who usurps
- Italian: usurpatrice — one who usurps
- Japanese: 簒奪者 (sandatsusha) — one who usurps
- Korean: 횡령자 (hoengnyeongja) — one who usurps
- Korean: 찬탈자 (chantalja) — one who usurps
- Latvian: uzurpators — one who usurps
- Lithuanian: uzurpatorius — one who usurps
- Macedonian: узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) — one who usurps
- Norwegian Bokmål: usurpator — one who usurps
- Polish: uzurpator — one who usurps
- Portuguese: usurpador — one who usurps
- Romanian: uzurpator — one who usurps
- Russian: узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) — one who usurps
- Serbo-Croatian: узу̀рпа̄тор — one who usurps
- Serbo-Croatian: uzùrpātor — one who usurps
- Slovak: uzurpátor — one who usurps
- Slovak: uchvatiteľ — one who usurps
- Slovene: uzurpator — one who usurps
- Spanish: usurpador — one who usurps
- Swedish: usurpator — one who usurps
- Swedish: kuppmakare — one who usurps
- Tagalog: manggagaga — one who usurps
- Tagalog: mangangangka — one who usurps
- Turkish: gaspçı — one who usurps
- Ukrainian: узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) — one who usurps
- Uzbek: uzurpator — one who usurps
- Yiddish: אוזורפּאַטאָר (uzurpator) — one who usurps
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