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magician
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Noun magician has 2 senses
- magician(n = noun.person) conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator - someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience; Array has particulars: escape expert, escapologist, mind reader, telepathist, thought-reader
- magician(n = noun.person) necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard - one who practices magic or sorcery; Array has particulars: enchanter, exorciser, exorcist, magus, sorceress, witch doctor, cagliostro, count alessandro di cagliostro, giuseppe balsamo
is a kind of performer, performing artist
Derived form noun magic2
is a kind of occultist
Derived form noun magic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
magician, n.
1 a person skilled in or practising magic.
2 a conjuror.
3 a person with exceptional skill.
1 a person skilled in or practising magic.
2 a conjuror.
3 a person with exceptional skill.
Etymology
ME f. OF magicien f. LL magica (as MAGIC)
THESAURUS
magician
Circe, Merlin, Prospero, ace, airiness, appearance, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, charmer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, conjuror, coryphee, crackerjack, dancer, dancing girl, delusiveness, diabolist, diviner, ecdysiast, enchanter, enchantress, entertainer, escamoteur, exorciser, exorcist, exotic dancer, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, female impersonator, first-rater, fortune-teller, geisha, geisha girl, genius, good hand, great, guisard, guiser, hoofer, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, impersonator, juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magus, mahatma, man of genius, marvel, master, master hand, mastermind, medicine man, medium, miracle-worker, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, necromancer, past master, peeler, performer, practiced hand, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, prodigy, prophet, public entertainer, sage, satanist, seeming, seer, semblance, shaman, show, show girl, simulacrum, singer, skilled hand, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand performer, soothsayer, sorcerer, sorceress, sorcery, specious appearance, star, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, superstar, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, topnotcher, tricker, trickster, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, virtuoso, voodoo, voodooist, warlock, whiz, witch, wizardROGET THESAURUS
magician
Sorcerer
N sorcerer, magician, thaumaturgist, theurgist, conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch, hoodoo, voodoo, fairy, lamia, hag, warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage, cunning man, medicine man, Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica, medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller, mesmerist, deus ex machina, soothsayer, Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian, Circe, siren, weird sisters.
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