Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who practices magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- n. A skilled or clever person: a wizard at math.
- n. Archaic A sage.
- adj. Chiefly British Slang Excellent.
- adj. Archaic Of or relating to wizards or wizardry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To effect by wizardry or enchantment.
- n. A wise man; a sage.
- n. A proficient in the occult sciences; an adept in the black art; one supposed to possess supernatural powers, generally from having leagued himself with the Evil One; a sorcerer; an enchanter; a magician; hence, a title occasionally applied to, or assumed by, modern performers of legerdemain; a conjuror; a juggler. See witch.
- Magic; having magical powers; enchanting: as, a wizard spell.
Wiktionary
- n. One who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
- n. One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
- n. computing A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
- n. Internet One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.
- adj. slang, dated, UK Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).
- v. intransitive To practice wizardry.
- v. transitive To conjure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A wise man; a sage.
- n. One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
- adj. Enchanting; charming.
- adj. Haunted by wizards.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
- n. one who practices magic or sorcery
- n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Etymologies
- From Middle English wys ("wise") + -ard. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English wisard : wise, wise; see wise1 + -ard, pejorative suff.; see -ard. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“AVPM is a play, written and performed by a theatre company, and what we call wizard rock is just the soundtrack.”
“Once the wizard is complete, hopefully you will see a dialog that sets up XP for use, which will take quite a while.”
“Harry Potter, the fictional boy wizard, is making owls disappear in India, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh says.”
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“When you dig deeper into this corporate planned reform movement and see the little man behind the curtain -- you realize the wizard is just a greedy fraud.”
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“Genre veteran Christopher Lloyd also gives a bang-up performance as the Elvin wizard Tesselink.”
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“The prerequisite checking program does a great job of ferreting out any missing components, a best practices wizard is available to optimize performance settings before installing EV, and the installer is as simple as it can be, with the option for a basic 'quick install' or an advanced installation mode that lets you access all the features.”
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“It reminds me of the scene from The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and her friends discover that the wizard is not a wizard at all, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.””
“The real difference between that 3rd-level wizard and the 9th-level wizard is going to be in their relative non-combat power: the 9th-level wizard will probably have a tower, some apprentices, the ear of the King, a pile of contingency plans to keep their measly 22 hp safe, and allies scattered throughout the land.”
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“Still, in a straight-up fight the 3rd-level wizard still has a chance, because the 9th-level wizard is going to have between 9 and 36 hp, with an average of 22 hp.”
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artists
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Flutter
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Words I like
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Tweets
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dailyword Gandalf, Saruman, and all the characters from Harry Potter are this. Sep 18, 2012
yarb I'm sure they're very clever (albeit oddly-monikered) fellows, but until they've made the Statue of Liberty disappear I really don't think they deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as David Copperfield. Jul 18, 2011
agenttgirl Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, and Severus Snape are the greatest wizards ever. Jul 8, 2011