"usurper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /juˈsɜɹ.pəɹ/ [General-American], /juˈzɜː.pə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-usurper.wav Forms: usurpers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English usurper, usurpour, usurpur, from Middle French usurpeur; equivalent to usurp + -er. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|usurper}} Middle English usurper, {{der|en|frm|usurpeur}} Middle French usurpeur, {{af|en|usurp|-er}} usurp + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} usurper (plural usurpers)
  1. One who usurps. Wikipedia link: usurper Synonyms: usurpator Derived forms: usurpress Translations (one who usurps): غَاصِب (ḡāṣib) [masculine] (Arabic), مُبْتَزّ (mubtazz) [masculine] (Arabic), مُغْتَصِب (muḡtaṣib) [masculine] (Arabic), مُنْتَزِع (muntaziʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), ուզուրպատոր (uzurpator) (Armenian), узурпа́тар (uzurpátar) [masculine] (Belarusian), узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) [masculine] (Bulgarian), usurpador [masculine] (Catalan), 僭主 (jiànzhǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 篡位者 (cuànwèizhě) (Chinese Mandarin), 篡奪者 (Chinese Mandarin), 篡夺者 (cuànduózhě) (Chinese Mandarin), 篡權者 (Chinese Mandarin), 篡权者 (cuànquánzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), uzurpátor [masculine] (Czech), uchvatitel [masculine] (Czech), tronraner (note: of a throne) [common-gender] (Danish), usurpator [common-gender] (Danish), usurpator [masculine] (Dutch), machtsovernemer [masculine] (Dutch), usurpaator (Estonian), vallananastaja (Finnish), usurpaattori (Finnish), usurpateur [masculine] (French), usurpatrice [feminine] (French), usurpador [masculine] (Galician), უზურპატორი (uzurṗaṭori) (Georgian), Usurpator [masculine] (German), Usurpatorin [feminine] (German), σφετεριστής (sfeteristís) [masculine] (Greek), bitorló (Hungarian), valdaræningi [masculine] (Icelandic), uzurpero (Ido), uzurpinto (Ido), uzurpanto (Ido), anlaith [masculine] (Irish), forghabhálaí [masculine] (Irish), forlámhaí [masculine] (Irish), usurpatore [masculine] (Italian), usurpatrice [feminine] (Italian), 簒奪者 (sandatsusha) (alt: さんだつしゃ) (Japanese), 횡령자 (hoengnyeongja) (alt: 橫領者) (Korean), 찬탈자 (chantalja) (alt: 簒奪者) (Korean), uzurpators [masculine] (Latvian), uzurpatorius [masculine] (Lithuanian), узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) [masculine] (Macedonian), usurpator [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), uzurpator [masculine] (Polish), usurpador [masculine] (Portuguese), uzurpator [masculine] (Romanian), узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) [masculine] (Russian), узу̀рпа̄тор [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), uzùrpātor [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), uzurpátor [masculine] (Slovak), uchvatiteľ [masculine] (Slovak), uzurpator [masculine] (Slovene), usurpador [masculine] (Spanish), usurpator [common-gender] (Swedish), kuppmakare [common-gender] (Swedish), manggagaga (Tagalog), mangangangka (Tagalog), gaspçı (Turkish), узурпа́тор (uzurpátor) [masculine] (Ukrainian), uzurpator (Uzbek), אוזורפּאַטאָר (uzurpator) [masculine] (Yiddish)
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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          "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "僭主"
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      "roman": "cuànwèizhě",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "篡位者"
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "roman": "cuànduózhě",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "篡夺者"
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "篡權者"
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "code": "et",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "vallananastaja"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "usurpaattori"
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      "word": "usurpateur"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "usurpatrice"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "word": "usurpador"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uzurṗaṭori",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "უზურპატორი"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Usurpator"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Usurpatorin"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sfeteristís",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "σφετεριστής"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "bitorló"
    },
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "valdaræningi"
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    {
      "code": "io",
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      "word": "uzurpero"
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    {
      "code": "io",
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      "word": "uzurpinto"
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      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "uzurpanto"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anlaith"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "forghabhálaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "forlámhaí"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "usurpatore"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "usurpatrice"
    },
    {
      "alt": "さんだつしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sandatsusha",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "簒奪者"
    },
    {
      "alt": "橫領者",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hoengnyeongja",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "횡령자"
    },
    {
      "alt": "簒奪者",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "chantalja",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "찬탈자"
    },
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uzurpators"
    },
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uzurpatorius"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "uzurpátor",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "узурпа́тор"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "usurpator"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uzurpator"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "usurpador"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "uzurpator"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "узу̀рпа̄тор"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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      "word": "uzùrpātor"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "word": "uzurpátor"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "word": "uchvatiteľ"
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "uzurpator"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "usurpador"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
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      "word": "kuppmakare"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "manggagaga"
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    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "mangangangka"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "gaspçı"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "uzurpátor",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "word": "узурпа́тор"
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      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
      "word": "uzurpator"
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      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "uzurpator",
      "sense": "one who usurps",
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      "word": "אוזורפּאַטאָר"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.