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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impostor \Im*pos"tor\, noun [L. impostor a deceiver, fr. imponere to impose upon, deceive. See {Impone}.] One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. ''The fraudulent impostor foul.'' --Milton.
Syn: Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See {Deceiver}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impostor
noun: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: {imposter}, {pretender}, {fake}, {faker}, {fraud}, {sham}, {shammer}, {pseudo}, {pseud}, {role player}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "impostor": ape, beguiler, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, clinquant, con man, confidence man, conformist, copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver, dissembler, dissimulator, dummy, echo, echoer, echoist, fake, fakement, faker, flimflam man, forger, forgery, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, hoax, humbug, hypocrite, imitation, imitator, impersonator, imposter, junk, malingerer, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, misleader, mock, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, paste, pettifogger, phony, pinchbeck, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser, poseur, pretender, put-on, put-up job, quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco, sham, shammer, shark, sheep, shoddy, shyster, simulacrum, simulator, swindle, swindler, tinsel, trickster, whited sepulcher
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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