Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sorcerer; a wizard.
- n. One who performs magic for entertainment or diversion.
- n. One whose formidable skill or art seems to be magical: a magician with words.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the Magi or priestly caste of ancient Persia.
- n. One skilled in magic; a wizard; an enchanter; a conjurer.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
- n. A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).
- n. A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
- n. An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
- n. A person who astounds, is an enigma.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
- n. An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
- n. one who practices magic or sorcery
Etymologies
- magic + -ian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He admitted that the term magician was not as clearly delineated as witch and poisoner28.”
To Prevent a "Shipwreck of Souls": Johann Weyer and "De Praestigiis Daemonum." Elisa Slattery
“The word magician appears some twelve times in the Bible.”
“Actually, Mike, the magician is the one who can fix it when the magic smoke escapes!”
“Any second-rate magician knows most people will watch the hand that's moving, the hand the magician is looking at, and not the other hand.”
“When a fellow magician is murdered, a series of events are set into motion that pull Nicodemus and his fellow students and teachers into a conflict far outside of their control.”
“It's set in the early 60s, when a middle-aged magician is touring the fading vaudeville circuit and rock and roll and old age are nipping at his heels.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Days 1 And 2: Midnight Madness
“A law of magic, for a magician, is a way to achieve a consequence from an action.”
“It's the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain.”
“Not only is Keller the "fishin 'magician," he's a chef.”
“Which is to say, I'm appearing (or being produced, in magician's terminology) in the following places and times:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘magician’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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If it's magic...
magic, Magic, magic wand, magic carpet, magician, Magic Johnson, magic hour, magical realism, Magic: The Gathering, Magic Kingdom, Magic Eye, Magic Bus and 94 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Who hid the keys?
Words for people who like to hide ideas, objects, and other living things
censor, bibliotaph, smuggler, stoic, obfuscator, cryptographer, novelist, magician, statistician, beautician, mule, abductor and 29 more...
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darren latson
education
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Magic Users
Wonderworkers and spellcasters, names and types. Not including any of those -mancer words.
witch, wizard, kahuna, mirabilist, mentalist, magi, illusionist, medicine man, sorcerer, conjurer, diviner, mage and 26 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Big Top
roadshow, hooplah, derring do, acrobat, buffoonery, cavort, hijinks, gaiety, frolic, ringmaster, stilts, tightrope and 77 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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magik
magic, wizardry, scorcery, necronomicon, ensorcelled, cantrip, pentagram, shaman, numerology, tarot, séance, oracle and 30 more...
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words I adore
serendipity, enchanted, illumination, zebra, galaxy, chandelier, eternity, luxe, glitter, starry, raven, lavender and 71 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for magician.
jmjarmstrong JM was watching a magician driving down the road - then he turned into a drive way. Aug 12, 2011