Associations to the word «Impersonate»

Wiktionary

IMPERSONATE, verb. (transitive) To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of.
IMPERSONATE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.

Dictionary definition

IMPERSONATE, verb. Assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man".
IMPERSONATE, verb. Represent another person with comic intentions.
IMPERSONATE, verb. Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope