Definition of magician
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:one who performs tricks of illusion and sleight of hand
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Examples of magician in a Sentence
The magician pulled a rabbit out of a hat.
She is a magician on the basketball court.
Recent Examples of magician from the Web
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The novels focus on a fighter and magician named Kvothe, who is telling his life story to a chronicler.
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Music on Mill Children’s magician the Amazing Kevin performs.
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Although Metallica features four musicians — not magicians — the intensely hard-rocking band still executed an eye-popping, sleight-of-hand feat during its explosive Sunday night concert at Petco Park.
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There will also be jugglers, stilt walkers, balloon artists and a magician from the Cincinnati Family Circus walking around the festival entertaining the crowd.
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Critics have given a 93 percent fresh rating to Matt Reeves’s War for the Planet of the Apes, the third installment in the science-fiction series since Chernin Entertainment and Fox rebooted it in 2011 with the help of the magicians at Weta Digital.
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In the end, Pulitzer or no Pulitzer, the magician won.
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Heathcote Williams, 75, a British playwright, poet, anarchist, and magician, died Saturday at a hospital in Oxford, England.
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Gulfstream Park Gear up for the fireworks display at the end of Freedom Fest by enjoying a Kid Fun Zone from 5-9 p.m. with an airbrush tattoo artist, face painters, magicians and a coloring station.
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First Known Use of magician
14th century
magician Synonyms
Synonyms
charmer, conjurer (or conjuror), enchanter, mage, Magian, magus, necromancer, sorcerer, voodoo, voodooist, witch, wizardRelated Words
enchantress, hag, hex, sorceress; warlock; occultist; thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, wonder-worker; medicine man, shaman, shamanist, witch doctor; crystal gazer, diviner, foreseer, fortune-teller, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, seer, soothsayer; medium; exorciser, exorcistMAGICIAN Defined for English Language Learners
magician
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Definition of magician for English Language Learners
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: a person who has the power to make impossible things happen
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: a performer who does tricks that seem to be impossible
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: a person who has amazing skills
MAGICIAN Defined for Kids
magician
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ma·gi·cian
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Definition of magician for Students
:a person skilled in performing tricks or illusions
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