forgery

Meaning

Noun

• The act of forging metal into shape.
• 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.
• That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
• An invention, creation.

Related

Similar words

• counterfeit
• fake

Origin

• Recorded since 1574; from the verb to forge, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricari ("to frame, construct, fabricate"), itself from fabrica, from faber.