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pretender   (TTS Sound)

The noun pretender has 3 senses

• Pretender -- (a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title))


• imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player -- (a person who makes deceitful pretenses)


• hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender -- (a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives)