pretender

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who intends or purposes. obsolete,rare
    — Pretensor, a pretender, he that purposeth.
  2. One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.
    — By how straight a Rule […] must that Pretender carry himselfe, who is to saile thorow the sea of this world, hoping for a fortune from another mans hand?
  3. One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.; One who aspires to the hand of a woman in marriage; a suitor, a wooer. obsolete
    — He, of the two pretenders, that best loves me.
  4. One who puts forth a claim, or who aspires to or aims at something; a claimant, candidate, or aspirant; now, one who makes baseless pretensions.; A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.
    — If inteſtine Broils allarm the Hive, / (For two Pretenders oft for Empire ſtrive)
  5. One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, especially without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.
    — A pretender / To the art, I truely honor, and ſubſcribe / To your maieſties opinion.
  6. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
动词 v.
  1. To tender (a bid, etc.) in advance. uncommon
    — The LPM coordinates closely with the EPM and the case attorney throughout the pretendering period. The Licensing Assistant (LA) in the assigned project branch requests that a project number be assigned by the Records Facilities[…]

词形变化

pretenders plural pretenders present,singular,third-person pretendering participle,present pretendered participle,past pretendered past

词汇关系

衍生词
Old Pretender pretenderism pretendership pretendress public pretender Young Pretender

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Latin praetendōbor.
Anglo-Norman pretendreder.
English pretend
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English pretender
From pretend + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English tender
English pretender
From pre- + tender.
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