English Dictionary

charlatan

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃɑɹlətən/

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.

日本語の意味

ペテン師：街頭で群衆に演説しながら、偽りの医薬品などを売りつける詐欺的な人物。 / 詐欺師：大衆を欺いて利益を得る者としての意味合い

In the 17th-century marketplace, a charlatan climbed onto a wooden crate and began touting miraculous cures to the gathered crowd.

17世紀の市場では、辻講釈師が木箱の上に乗って集まった群衆に奇跡の治療法を大げさに宣伝し始めた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.

The poor foreigner, more dead than alive, answered that he was an Italian charlatan, who had practised with some reputation in Padua […].

意味（2）

A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister.

charlatans （ plural ）