fake:
(plural: ‘fakes‘)
a person (or thing) that is not what he/she or it looks like — not real, not genuine;
a faker (next entry → →),
a fake police officer
e.g.
A person who is not a medical doctor but wears an apron and a stethoscope and behaves like a doctor in order to make money is called a fake.
When Milton’s scientific theory was disproved, people started calling him a fake.
After an hour of argument over their love affair, Sara finally told Sam that she was matured enough to tell a fake from a true lover.
As the law enforcement agency is becoming more and more corrupt, we see more and more fakes posing as real policemen and making money out of their fakery!
For an article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily readings, please click here and for an item of news that reports a fake cop, please click here.
little girl with fake moustache
Note:’Fake’ is also used to refer to something that is not true, real or genuine; and as an adjective, it is more commonly used to refer to something or someone that is not real or genuine but a counterfeit, a forgery, an imitation, etc. For an article that shows us how this word is used for things, please click here, and for an article that shows us how this word is used as an adjective to refer to made-up things, things that are imitations, not real or genuine, please click here.
