Charlatan Definition

shärlə-tən
charlatans
noun
charlatans
A person who pretends to have expert knowledge or skill that he or she does not have; fake; mountebank.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
charlatan
Plural:
charlatans

Origin of Charlatan

  • French from Italian ciarlatano probably alteration (influenced by ciarlare to prattle) of cerretano inhabitant of Cerreto , a city of Italy once famous for its quacks

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“a chatterer”) and cerretano (“a hawker, quack”), literally, a native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks.

    From Wiktionary

Charlatan Sentence Examples

  • The king himself was indeed a semi-idiot, scarce responsible for his actions, yet his was the era of such striking personalities as the brilliant charlatan Struensee.

  • But the pupil soon found his teacher to be a charlatan, and taught himself, aided by commentaries, to master logic, geometry andastronomy.

  • The famous charlatan Cagliostro was also arrested, but it was recognized that he had taken no part in the affair.

  • A quack is one who pretends to knowledge of which he is ignorant, a charlatan, particularly a medical impostor.

  • Alexander had remarkable beauty and the striking personality of the successful charlatan, and must have been a man of considerable intellectual abilities and power of organization.

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