Usually means: Charlatan deceiving others for gain.
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  1. mountebank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mountebank: Merriam-Webster
  3. mountebank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mountebank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mountebank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mountebank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mountebank, mountebank: Wordnik
  8. mountebank: Wiktionary
  9. mountebank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mountebank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mountebank: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mountebank: Dictionary.com
  13. mountebank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mountebank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mountebank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mountebank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mountebank: Rhymezone
  18. Mountebank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mountebank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Mountebank: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. mountebank: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mountebank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mountebank: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Mountebank: World Wide Words

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  1. mountebank: Legal dictionary

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  1. mountebank: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mountebank: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. mountebank: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MOUNTEBANK, MOUNTEBANK, MOUNTEBANK: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. mountebank: A Word A Day

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  1. mountebank: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mountebankery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who sells dubious medicines.
noun:  One who sells by deception; a con artist.
noun:  Any boastful, false pretender.
noun:  (obsolete) An acrobat.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a mountebank.
verb:  (transitive) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

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