different between poseur vs fraud

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French poseur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po??z???/

Noun

poseur (plural poseurs)

1. One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.

   Synonyms: poser, attitudinizer

Translations

See also

• pretentious

Anagrams

• Roupes, rose up, souper, supero-, uprose

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.zœ?/

Noun

poseur m (plural poseurs, feminine poseuse)

1. poseur

   Synonyms: crâneur, frimeur

Related terms

• poser

Descendants

• ? English: poseur
• ? German: Poseur

Adjective

poseur (feminine singular poseuse, masculine plural poseurs, feminine plural poseuses)

1. pompous, affected

Further reading

• “poseur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• proues, souper

English

Etymology

From Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???d/
• (US) enPR: frôd, IPA^(key): /f??d/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) enPR: fr?d, IPA^(key): /f??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

fraud (countable and uncountable, plural frauds)

1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
3. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
4. A person who performs any such trick.
5. (obsolete) A trap or snare.

Synonyms

• swindle
• scam
• (criminal) deceit
• trickery
• hoky-poky
• imposture
• (person) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster
• grift

Related terms

• defraud
• fraudulence
• fraudulent
• fraudulently
• fraudulentness
• insurance fraud
• mail fraud
• pious fraud
• wire fraud

Translations

Verb

fraud (third-person singular simple present frauds, present participle frauding, simple past and past participle frauded)

1. (obsolete) To defraud

Translations

See also

• embezzlement
• false billing
• false advertising
• forgery
• identity theft
• predatory lending
• quackery
• usury
• white-collar crime

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fraud f

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by frau