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Definition of 'con'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adv.) con
against a proposition, opinion, etc.:
arguments pro and con.

2. (n.) con
the argument, position, arguer, or voter against something.

3. (v.t.) con
to peruse or examine carefully; study.

4.  con
to commit to memory; learn.

5. (v.t.) con
to direct the steering of (a ship).

6. (n.) con
the station of the person who cons a ship.

7. (adj.) con
involving abuse of confidence; deceitfully manipulative:
a con trick.

8. (v.t.) con
to swindle; trick.

9.  con
to persuade by deception, cajolery, etc.

10. (n.) con
a confidence game or swindle.

11.  con
a lie, exaggeration, or glib self-serving talk.

12. (n.) con
Informal. a convict.

Etymology: (< L)

Definition of 'con'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) con
an argument opposed to a proposal

2. (noun) convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

3. (verb) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

4. (verb) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
deprive of by deceit
"He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

5. (adverb) memorize, memorise, con, learn
commit to memory; learn by heart
"Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"

6. (adverb) con
in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.
"much was written pro and con"

Definition of 'con'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) con
a trick to get money from sb

2. (verb) con
to use tricks to get money from sb
He conned her out of $5,000.

Definition of 'con'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adverb) con
against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro

2. (verb) con
to know; to understand; to acknowledge

3. (verb) con
to study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously

4. (verb) con
to conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer

Translation of 'con'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to trick or persuade dishonestly He conned her into giving him money.
Afrikaans: bedrieg, beswendel	Arabic: يَخْدَع	Bulgarian: изигравам
Brazilian: enganar	Czech: napálit, obalamutit	German: reinlegen
Danish: narre; snyde; svindle	Greek: εξαπατώ	Spanish: estafar, timar
Estonian: pettusega meelitama	Farsi: خر کردن؛ شیادی کردن	Finnish: huijata
French: escroquer	Hebrew: לְרָמוֹת	Hindi: ठगना
Croatian: prevariti	Hungarian: rászed	Indonesian: menipu
Icelandic: svindlaá, plata	Italian: raggirare, truffare	Japanese: だます
Korean: 속이다	Lithuanian: išvilioti, sugundyti	Latvian: izkrāpt; blēdīties
Malay: menipu	Dutch: oplichten	Norwegian: narre, lure, lokke, svind
Polish: naciągać	Persian: خر کردن؛ شیادی کردن	Pashto: كتل، لوستل، مطالعه كول: چ
Portuguese: vigarizar	Romanian: a prosti; a escroca	Russian: обманом выманивать
Slovak: vylákať (podvodom)	Slovenian: varati, premamiti	Serbian: prevariti
Swedish: lura, dra vid näsan	Thai: หลองลวง	Turkish: kandırmak, üçkâgıda getir
Taiwanese: 哄騙	Ukrainian: утягувати обманом у що	Urdu: چکر دینا دھوکا دینا
Vietnamese: lừa bịp	Chinese: 哄骗
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