English Dictionary

pretender

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪˈtɛndəɹ/

名詞

廃用 稀用

(obsolete, rare) One who intends or purposes. / 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.

日本語の意味

意図や目的を持つ者 / 自己の主張や要求を前面に出す者 / 候補者または志望者 / 根拠のない虚勢を張る者

The pretender declared his purpose to fund a new library for the town.

その意図を持つ人は町の新しい図書館のために資金を提供するつもりだと宣言した。

意味（1）

(obsolete, rare) One who intends or purposes.

Pretensor, a pretender, he that purposeth.

意味（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?

意味（3）

One who pretends or lays claim to something; one who makes a profession, show, or assertion, esp. without adequate grounds, falsely, or with intent to deceive; a dissembler, deceiver, charlatan, hypocrite.

A pretender To the art, I truly honour…your majesty’s opinion.

意味（4）

A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.

意味（5）

A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.

I presume that there is no gentleman in Europe that has not heard of the house of Barry of Barryogue, of the kingdom of Ireland, than which a more famous name is not to be found in Gwillim or D’Hozier; and though, as a man of the world, I have learned to despise heartily the claims of some pretenders to high birth who have no more genealogy than the lacquey who cleans my boots, […]

pretenders （ plural ）