Usually means: Imposter pretending expertise for profit.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. charlatan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. charlatan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. charlatan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. charlatan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. charlatan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Charlatan, charlatan: Wordnik
  7. charlatan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. charlatan: Wiktionary
  9. charlatan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. charlatan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. charlatan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. charlatan: Dictionary.com
  13. charlatan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. charlatan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Charlatan (album), Charlatan (disambiguation), Charlatan, The Charlatan (operetta), The Charlatan (student newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Charlatan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. charlatan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. charlatan: Rhymezone
  19. Charlatan, charlatan (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. charlatan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Charlatan: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. charlatan: Free Dictionary
  23. charlatan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Charlatan: The Word Detective
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  1. charlatan: Legal dictionary

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  1. charlatan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. charlatan: Medical dictionary

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  1. charlatan: A Word A Day

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  1. charlatan: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
▸ noun:  A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

Similar:
mountebank, chanter, operator, hustler, handseller, empiric, quacksalver, quackster, quack, huckster, more...

Opposite:
expert, specialist, professional

Types:
snake oil salesman, quack, con man, huckster, fraud, faux-mage, more...

Phrases:
opposite of charlatan, more...

Adjectives:
mere, old, political, great, clever, religious, complete, medical, literary, italian, successful

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Similar:
mountebank, chanter, operator, hustler, handseller, empiric, quacksalver, quackster, quack, huckster, more...

Opposite:
expert, specialist, professional

Types:
snake oil salesman, quack, con man, huckster, fraud, faux-mage, more...

Phrases:
opposite of charlatan, more...

Adjectives:
mere, old, political, great, clever, religious, complete, medical, literary, italian, successful

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     copper,     brass, more...



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