FORGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forger mean? 

• FORGER (noun)
  The noun FORGER has 2 senses:

1. someone who operates a forge

2. someone who makes copies illegally

  Familiarity information: FORGER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who operates a forge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("forger" is a kind of...):

metalworker; smith (someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable))

Derivation:

forge (create by hammering)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who makes copies illegally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

counterfeiter; forger

Hypernyms ("forger" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forger"):

coiner (a maker of counterfeit coins)

paperhanger (someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money)

Derivation:

forge (make a copy of with the intent to deceive)

 Context examples 

You remember, Watson, that it was near there that we took Archie Stamford, the forger.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The forger created numbered checks that were completely out of sequence and not even close to the numbers in my checkbook.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years’ spell of penal servitude.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is Arthur H. Staunton, the rising young forger,” said he, “and there was Henry Staunton, whom I helped to hang, but Godfrey Staunton is a new name to me.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)