Usually means: Imitation intended to deceive; fraudulent.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterfeit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. counterfeit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterfeit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterfeit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterfeit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterfeit, counterfeit: Wordnik
  7. counterfeit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterfeit: Wiktionary
  9. counterfeit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterfeit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counterfeit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Counterfeit, counterfeit: Dictionary.com
  13. counterfeit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. counterfeit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Counterfeit (band), Counterfeit (disambiguation), Counterfeit (poker), Counterfeit (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Counterfeit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. counterfeit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. counterfeit: Rhymezone
  19. counterfeit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. counterfeit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. counterfeit: Free Dictionary
  22. counterfeit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. counterfeit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Counterfeit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterfeit: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Counterfeit: Numismatic Dictionary
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterfeit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. counterfeit: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. counterfeit: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterfeit: Encyclopedia

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Counterfeit: Dan's Poker
  2. Counterfeit: Poker Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterfeit: Coin Collecting

(Note: See counterfeited as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
adjective:  Inauthentic.
adjective:  Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
noun:  A non-genuine article; a fake.
noun:  One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
noun:  (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
noun:  (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
verb:  (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
verb:  (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

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