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Definition of Charlatan
1. Noun. A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Specialized synonyms: Craniologist, Phrenologist, Quack
Definition of Charlatan
1. n. One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
Definition of Charlatan
1. Noun. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Charlatan
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Charlatan
1. A medical fraud claiming to cure disease by useless procedures, secret remedies, and worthless diagnostic and therapeutic machines. Synonym: quack. Origin: Fr., fr. It. Ciarlare, to prattle (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charlatan
Literary usage of Charlatan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"GENIUS OR charlatan? VICTOR HUGO was characterized by Matthew Arnold as "half
genius, half charlatan." Other writers have bluntly maintained that no genius, ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1896)
"I have been called a charlatan for twenty years. I have been buffeted from pillar
to post. And why ? Because I believed in my phrenology, in my medical ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"F. charlatan, a. mountebank, a cousen- ing drug-seller, . . a tatler, babler,
foolish prater ; ' Cot. Introduced from Ital. in the l6th century; ..."
4. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XXXIV He adjusts the Method of his Correspondence with Gauntlet—Meets by
Accident with an Italian charlatan, and a certain Apothecary, who proves to ..."
5. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"QUACK, MOUNTEBANK, EMPIRIC, charlatan, ARE all titles ... charlatan is derived
immediately from France, remotely from Italy, where ciarlatano ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"Count Cagliostro : or, the charlatan. A Tale of the Reign of Lows XVI. 3 Vols.
London : E. Bull. 1838. WE rose from the perusal of Ernest Maltravers with so ..."
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