Forgery

Noun

 * 1) The act of forging metal into shape.
 * 2) 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; as, the forgery of a bond.
 * 3) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
 * 4)  An invention, creation

Synonyms

 * counterfeit
 * fake

Derived terms

 * forger

Adjectives for Forgery
literary; flimsy; deliberate; audacious.

Thesaurus
bad check, bad money, base coin, bogus money, canard, certified copy, cheat, clinquant, coinage, coining, concoction, copy, copying, counterfeit, counterfeit money, counterfeiting, dummy, ectype, emulation, extravaganza, fable, fabrication, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fakement, fakery, false money, falsification, fiction, figment, following, frame-up, fraud, fraudulence, green goods, hit-off, hoax, icon, image, imitation, impersonation, impostor, imposture, impression, invention, junk, kite, likeness, mimesis, mintage, mirroring, mock, myth, onomatopoeia, parody, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, phony, picture, pinchbeck, plagiarism, plagiary, portrait, put-on, put-up job, queer, repetition, representation, resemblance, rip-off, romance, rubber check, semblance, sham, shoddy, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, stamping, striking, swindle, takeoff, tinsel, whited sepulcher

Etymology
Recorded since recorded 1574; from the verb to forge, from, via forger from  forgier, from  fabricari "to frame, construct, fabricate", itself from fabrica 'workshop; construction', from faber 'workman, smith'

Translations

 * Dutch: smederij, smeden
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Polish: kucie


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ковка
 * Serbian: skovati


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (wěizhào)
 * Czech: padělání
 * Dutch: bedrog, namaak, vervalsing
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:, παραποίηση


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: fałszowanie, podrabianie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: подлог, подделка, фальсификация
 * Serbian: krivotvoriti


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (yànpǐn)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: namaak, vervalsing
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: falsyfikat
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: подделка, фальшивка,
 * Serbian: krivotvorina
 * Spanish:


 * : contrefaçon, falsification, faux, invention
 * : falso
 * : 偽作


 * Hangul: 위조
 * Romaja: wijo
 * : (Modern Latin) contrafactio nominative, contrafactionis genitive; falsificatio nominative, falsificationis genitive; (Classical Latin) falsum
 * : falsificación
 * : falsificación