forgery
UK/ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ//ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/
forgery noun: the act of forging metal into shape.
Noun
forgery (countable and uncountable, plural forgeries)
- The act of forging metal into shape.
- the forgery of horseshoes
- 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.
- the forgery of a bond
- 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...1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
- That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
- An invention, creation.
forgery meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
forgery in Tamil
- கள்ளக்கையெழுத்து, பொய்க் கையெழுத்து, பொய்யாவணம், பொய்யாவணம் புனைதல், போலி ஒப்பமிடல், போலி ஓப்பம்
forgery in Urdu
- forgery
- تقلید taqlīd
forgery in Telugu
- ఫోర్జరీ
forgery in Malayalam
- faking, counterfeiting, falsification
- കള്ളയാധാരനിർമ്മാണം, കൃത്രിമരേഖ ചമയ്ക്കൽ, കള്ളയൊപ്പിടൽ, ഉപധ, കള്ളപ്പ്, വ്യാജരേഖാനിർമ്മിതി
- fraud, fake, counterfeit
- വ്യാജം, വ്യാജൻ, മിഥ്യാകൃതി, കപടസൃഷ്ടി, കൃത്രിമാധാരം, വ്യാജപ്രമാണം
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- forgery in Kannada
- ಸುಳ್ಳು ಪತ್ರ ಸೃಷ್ಟನೆ, ನಕಲಿ ಪತ್ರ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು, ಸುಳ್ಳು ಪತ್ರ, ಕಳ್ಳ ರುಜು
- forgery in Punjabi
- ਫ਼ਰਜ਼ੀਕਰਨ
- forgery in Malay
- pemalsuan
- forgery in Indonesian
- pemalsuan
Examples of forgery in a sentence
- To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
- An expert can tell an original from a forgery.
- He fobbed off the forgery as genuine.
Synonyms of forgery
Forms of forgery
| plural | forgeries |
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Origin of forgery
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)).
Words formed from forgery
Questions about forgery
- What does forgery mean?
- Forgery means the act of forging metal into shape.
- What is forgery in Tamil?
- Forgery in Tamil is கள்ளக்கையெழுத்து, பொய்க் கையெழுத்து, பொய்யாவணம். See Forgery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is forgery?
- Forgery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce forgery?
- Forgery is pronounced /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of forgery?
- The plural of forgery is forgeries.
Words near forgery in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: forgery (page history and authors); forgery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تقلید (Urdu) (page history and authors); forgery (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); forgery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); forgery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forgery (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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