Dictionary

forgery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/ (US)
• /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of forging metal into shape.
   • the forgery of horseshoes
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
   • Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off. 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
   • the forgery of a bond
3. (countable, uncountable) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
4. (archaic, countable, uncountable) An invention, creation.

Forms

Deriveds

sporgery · forger · antiforgery · cross-site request forgery · postal forgery · philatelic forgery

Synonyms

counterfeit · fake

Translations (80)

ms pemalsuan (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · af vervalsing (that which is forged or counterfeited) · ja 偽物 (that which is forged or counterfeited) · de Schmieden (the act of forging metal into shape) · nb falskneri (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · nb forfalsking (that which is forged or counterfeited) · af vervalsing (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · ru фальши́вка (that which is forged or counterfeited) · tr sahtecilik (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · da falskneri (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · sh krivotvoriti (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pt forjadura (the act of forging metal into shape) · de Falsifikat (that which is forged or counterfeited) · nl namaak (that which is forged or counterfeited) · ru фальсифика́ция (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · nn forfalsking (that which is forged or counterfeited) · hu hamisítvány (that which is forged or counterfeited) · ca forja (the act of forging metal into shape) · ca falsificació (that which is forged or counterfeited) · bg фалшификат (that which is forged or counterfeited) · pl fałszowanie (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · nb forfalskning (that which is forged or counterfeited) · cs padělek (that which is forged or counterfeited) · es falsificación (that which is forged or counterfeited) · de Fälschen (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · es falsificación (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · ru подде́лка (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · es forjadura (the act of forging metal into shape) · de Fälschung (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pt forjamento (the act of forging metal into shape) · fr forgeage (the act of forging metal into shape) · nb forfalskning (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · hu hamisítás (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pl falsyfikat (that which is forged or counterfeited) · nl smederij (the act of forging metal into shape) · nl smeden (the act of forging metal into shape) · nl bedrog (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · da forfalskning (that which is forged or counterfeited) · nl vervalsing (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · sv falsifikat (that which is forged or counterfeited) · de Fälschung (that which is forged or counterfeited) · el πλαστογραφία (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pt forjadura (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pt forjamento (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · cs padělání (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · ru ли́па (that which is forged or counterfeited) · ru подло́г (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · nb forfalsking (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pl podróbka (that which is forged or counterfeited) · cs podvrh (that which is forged or counterfeited) · el πλαστογράφηση (that which is forged or counterfeited) · it falsificazione (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · id pemalsuan (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · ca falsificació (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · ru ко́вка (the act of forging metal into shape) · pt falsificação (that which is forged or counterfeited) · ko 위조 (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · fi väärentäminen (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · fi taonta (the act of forging metal into shape) · nl vervalsing (that which is forged or counterfeited) · pl podrabianie (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · sh krivotvorina (that which is forged or counterfeited) · nl namaak (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · nb falskneri (that which is forged or counterfeited) · sv förfalskning (that which is forged or counterfeited) · cmn 偽造 /伪造 (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · pl kucie (the act of forging metal into shape) · da falskneri (that which is forged or counterfeited) · nn falskneri (that which is forged or counterfeited) · fi väärennös (that which is forged or counterfeited) · la falsificatio (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · sh skovati (the act of forging metal into shape) · bg фалшификация (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · nn falskneri (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · da forfalskning (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely) · ru подде́лка (that which is forged or counterfeited) · cmn 贗品 /赝品 (that which is forged or counterfeited) · af smedery (the act of forging metal into shape) · bg коване (the act of forging metal into shape) · nn forfalsking (the act of forging, fabricating or producing falsely)