'Charlatan' definitions:
Definition of 'charlatan'
(from WordNet)
noun
A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank, charlatan]
Definition of 'Charlatan'
From: GCIDE
- Charlatan \Char"la*tan\, n. [F. charlatan, fr. It. ciarlatano, fr. ciarlare to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It. zirlare to whistle like a thrush.] One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. [1913 Webster] Charlatanic
Synonyms of 'charlatan'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- blagueur,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- charlatanic,
- charlatanish,
- fake,
- faker,
- fourflusher,
- fraud,
- horse doctor,
- humbug,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- malingerer,
- medicaster,
- medicine man,
- medicine monger,
- mountebank,
- phony,
- poser,
- poseur,
- pretender,
- quack,
- quackish,
- quacksalver,
- quackster,
- ringer,
- saltimbanco,
- sham,
- shammer