forge

Meaning

Noun

1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
4. A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

Verb

1. To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
2. To form or create with concerted effort.
3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

Verb

1. (often) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
2. (sometimes) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Synonyms

counterfeit

smithy

fake

falsify

hammer

🔨

work

form

furnace

mold

mould

fabricate

contrive

copy

devise

shape

hammer out

imitate

invent

create

farriery

excogitate

make

bellows

formulate

fashion

smithing

blacksmith’s shop

stithy

construct

spirt

spurt

pound

💷

reproduce

poke

sham

hit

forging

discipline

forgery

build

adulterate

feign

duplicate

simulate

concoct

crash

buck

copycat

bring about

barge

Translations

forger

forge

schmieden

smeden

forjar

fälschen

vervalsen

forja

falsifier

fragua

fucina

contrefaire

forjar

forgia

forjar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔːd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: forge

Cognate with Arpitan: favèrge

Inherited from Middle English: forgen

In summary

From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.