Definitions
To claim, appear, or be intended to mean something.
Word origin
From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).
Used in a sentence
“He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.”
“The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.”
“He purported to become an international man of affairs.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Claim to mean”7 letters
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