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What does sycophant mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sycophant? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor 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) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  2. (transitive) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
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