Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who forges, forms, or makes; specifically, a smith; a wright.
  • noun One who makes something by false imitation; a falsifier; specifically, one who makes or issues a counterfeit document; a person guilty of forgery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
  • noun Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Person who falsifies documents with intent to defraud, eg, to create a false will.
  • noun Person who forges metals.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who makes copies illegally
  • noun someone who operates a forge

Etymologies

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to forge + -er

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Examples

  • He noted the horror of Mr. Harley at the term forger; he observed Mr. Harley's growing sense of helplessness as he, Storri, set forth how Mr. Harley lay in the toils.

    The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • But as Angle pointed out, The first concern of every forger is to secure old paper, and on the whole it is easily accomplished.

    An Atlantic Scandal 2006

  • A cheque forger is certainly a criminal and deserves to be punished, but does he need to be locked up in Kingston at monumental cost, just putting in time and reflecting on how he got caught?

    Priorities of My New Office 1985

  • Australian Coin forger’s Charlotte Medal fetches a pretty penny

    Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • A forger is the one criminal most hated in Wall Street, and as soon as it was announced that he was one, the stranger was instantly surrounded and captured.

    Halsey & Co. or, The Young Bankers and Speculators H. K. Shackleford

  • The banker, however, was a more important person than the clergyman, and his evident anxiety to lay hands on the forger was a thing not to be overlooked.

    The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley

  • Grauert, for whom the forger is a Frankish subject, shares the view of Hergenröther, i.e. the forger had in mind a defence of the new Western Empire from the attacks of the Byzantines.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • The most difficult signature for the forger is the clear, plain, copybook-modelled autograph.

    The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents Douglas Blackburn 1893

  • Whenever I've heard those stories about chaps who are brilliant forgers of art, who can copy a Da Vinci or a Rembrandt so perfectly that that even Mrs Da Vinci or a random art expert couldn't tell the difference, they always say that the forger was a brilliant artist himself.

    Kottu 2008

  • a runaway forger, which is not pleasant anyway, and if you doubt it, only try; but needs must when the old boy drives.

    Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

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