Meaning of Counterfeit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A non-genuine article; a fake.
2. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
3. That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
   obsolete
4. An impostor; a cheat.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.”

“Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.”

“‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.”

“Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.”

“Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.”

“I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.”

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