pretender🔊

(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.

(obsolete) One who aspires to the hand of a woman in marriage; a suitor, a wooer.

A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; ''originally'' in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.

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

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

(tender in advance)(uncommon) To tender (a bid{{,}} etc.) in advance.