impersonator

[ im-pur-suh-ney-ter ]
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noun
  1. a person who pretends to be another.

  2. an actor who impersonates specific persons or types of persons as a form of entertainment.

Origin of impersonator

1
First recorded in 1850–55; impersonate + -or2

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How to use impersonator in a sentence

  • A green-eyed impersonator, a blue-eyed impersonator: the room could have been full of impersonators, for all he cared.

    The Bill-Toppers | Andre Castaigne
  • In all these she invites comparison with great impersonators of these parts who are familiar to the stage.

    Mary Anderson | J. M. Farrar
  • The next entertainers were the Mulligan Brothers, female impersonators.

    The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun
  • This accent of the British subject in the West Indies is a dialect so peculiar that it defies the most skillful impersonators.

    Prowling about Panama | George A. Miller
  • The fact is that, as in the case of the fictitious Adam, these two impersonators are frauds.

    The Enchanted Typewriter | John Kendrick Bangs