pretense

«pretense» in Mova's school dictionary: a false show, where someone acts as if something is true… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (pretenses); British spelling is «pretence»

meaning for a pupil

A pretense is a false show, where someone acts as if something is true when it is not. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a trick where a character pretends to be something he is not, to fool another

examples

• He came to the king on the pretense of being a servant. tree →
• Under the pretense of buying the hare, the man stole it. tree →
• The cat made a pretense of being asleep. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pretense» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.