Definition of "sycophant" in Englisch

noun

1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.

2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.

3. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

2. (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.