Definition/Meaning of fake

• English - Adjective: fake (comparative faker or more fake, superlative fakest or most fake) Not real ; false , fraudulent . Which fur coat looks fake ? 1988 November 25, Caryn James, “Ayn Rand Adaptation By Italian”, in The New York Times: Seeing Rossano Brazzi play an aristocratic White Russian, standing in the fakest snow that wartime supplies could buy, may be the most peculiar twist of all in the curious story…
• English - Noun: fake (plural fakes) Something which is not genuine , or is presented fraudulent ly. I suspect this passport is a fake . A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent. (archaic) A trick ; a swindle . An impostor . fake (plural fakes) One of the circle s or winding s of a cable or hawser , as it lies in a coil ; a single turn or coil.
• English - Verb: fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked) (transitive) To make a counterfeit , to counterfeit, to forge , to falsify . (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect , to feign , to simulate . to fake a smile to fake happiness (archaic) To cheat ; to swindle ; to steal ; to rob . (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as…
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775 C.E. in British criminals' slang. It is probably from feak , feague (“to give a better appearance through artificial means, spruce up, embellish”), itself from German Low German fegen , from Middle Low German vēgen , from Old Saxon fegōn , from Proto-West Germanic *fegōn (“to clean up, polish”). Akin to Dutch…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /feɪ̯k/ Rhymes: -eɪk Homophone: PHEIC Homophone: PHEIC Homophone: PHEIC Homophone: PHEIC Homophone: PHEIC