Usually means: Aspiring claimant lacking genuine legitimacy.
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  1. pretender: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pretender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pretender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pretender: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pretender, pretender: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pretender, pretender: Wordnik
  7. pretender: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pretender: Wiktionary
  9. pretender: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pretender: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pretender: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pretender, pretender: Dictionary.com
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  14. Pretender: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pretender: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Pretender: Rhymezone
  17. Pretender, pretender: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pretender: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Pretender: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Pretender: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. pretender: Free Dictionary
  22. pretender: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. pretender: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (obsolete, rare) One who intends or purposes.
noun:  One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
noun:  (obsolete) One who aspires to the hand of a woman in marriage; a suitor, a wooer.
noun:  A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
noun:  One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
noun:  A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
verb:  (uncommon) To tender (a bid, etc.) in advance.

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