Thesaurus results for CHARMER

charmer

noun

Definition of charmer

as in sorcerer

a person skilled in using supernatural forces the legendary charmer known as the Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Recent Examples of charmer But Fortune’s thoughtful little charmer accomplishes the tricky task of dramatizing trauma and healing in terms accessible to all ages. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 July 2026 Querétaro is a highland charmer. — Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026 This guy sounds like a charmer. — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 No one would describe him as a carefree goofball, like Stone, or as a down-to-earth Southern charmer, like Wilson. — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 June 2026 But what this charmer of a film has that keeps us engaged, if not originality, is the couple at the center of it all. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 June 2026 Classic clip Ferris Bueller catches a foul ball Forty years ago Thursday, the world met a Chicagoland charmer who just wanted to show his friend a good time. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 12 June 2026 This Provençal charmer and its surroundings can be explored in a few days. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026 Why so many charmers, devious or otherwise? — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for charmer

Noun

On the wall above the bicycle hung a framed oil painting of the sorcerer Merlin and the knight Lancelot done by the Scotsman James Archer in the late nineteenth century.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
The sequence featuring Circe, the sorcerer who turns Odysseus’s men into pigs, might be the most disturbing of them all, not so much for what’s shown as for what’s implied, as the men’s body-horror-like transformations occur in tight shots.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026

Definition of sorcerer

Noun

Elizebeth Berkley poses with America’s Got Talent winner and magician Mat Franco at the Linq Hotel after his show in Las Vegas on July 21.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
The celebrated musicians, the eclectic writers, the artist troupes, the lumberjacks, the magicians.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026

Definition of magician

Noun

This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Or this one, where the mage Nic Cage totes Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Definition of mage

Noun

Food and drink Chefs Loice Acom and Gad Hafashimana are wizards in the Kibale Lodge kitchen.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2026
Balloons float above an exploding castle, a giant peeks from behind the bushes and wizards throw flames in the foreground.

— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026

Definition of wizard

Noun

This is a witch novel, but entirely unique in the way it’s presented, complete with alternate realities, buildings that don’t work quite right and mysterious animals doing the most.

— Hannah Whitten, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
There is much fun and frivolity at the Witch and Culture Festival, but the event also acknowledges some distressing real-life history that goes along with being (or being suspected of being) a witch in Connecticut.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026