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wizards

noun

plural of wizard
1
as in sorcerers
a person skilled in using supernatural forces the old wizard who introduces the young naïf to a life of adventure is one of the most overworked tropes in fantasy literature

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2
as in experts
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field a wizard at fixing cars

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3
as in geniuses
a very smart person a wizard who never studied for tests

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Recent Examples of wizards Ever since, witches, wizards, and dragons have bored me silly. — Griffin Dunne, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026 California’s tech wizards were busy helping lead the world into the Information Age, notably the fledgling commercial promise of the Internet. — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2026 This means the team members don’t need to be tech wizards to build custom reference material. — K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Players can also customize a walking castle and investigate a mystery involving missing wizards. — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Maybe the door to the wizards’ lair will open again someday, but a Camp Rock 4 seems more likely for now. — Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 12 Aug. 2026 Oh, this is the Wizards Guild of America, an entirely different organization of wizards. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026 The wizards did have some help from legacy actors, including Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle and Gregg Sulkin as Mason Greyback, in the closer. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026 The beloved Disney Channel series, which ran for four seasons until January 2012, followed the Russo family living as secret wizards in New York City. — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wizards
  1. sorcerers
  2. experts
  3. geniuses
  4. mages
  5. adepts
  6. nerds
  7. magicians
  8. masters
Noun
  • The Fore said that the disease was caused by secret attacks from sorcerers.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The woods could be hiding places of witches and sorcerers, disguised as the old and feeble, but capable of summoning wonder and terrors, charms as well as curses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Definition of sorcerers
Noun
  • For decades, Argonne experts have converted reactors across the globe to secure nuclear materials.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Local experts think this year's bloom could be the best the area has experienced in nearly 20 years.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of experts
Noun
  • In their place are flawed geniuses and idiosyncratic personalities thrust together in the dregs of intelligence services, operating like a dysfunctional family under its disreputable patriarch.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Broadly speaking, these kinds of stories — powered by a stop-them-before-they-kill-again clock, making their antagonists out to be finicky geniuses or horror movie monsters instead of opportunistic mediocrities — strike me as a low form of fiction.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of geniuses
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
  • Wizards, or mages (as the group has commonly referred to Eleven), develop their powers using arcane magic to cast powerful spells.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
Definition of mages
Noun
  • Still, the question of what Ebel was doing with his adepts swept through Prussia, dominating the newspapers that had only recently begun to emerge from their eighteenth-century chronicling of obligations to a more modern publicizing role.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • He was investigated by the SS on the orders of Heinrich Himmler but convinced his investigators, all adepts of Deutsche Physik, that he was engaged in worthwhile teaching and research.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Definition of adepts
Noun
  • McCartney 3, 2, 1 wasn’t exclusively aimed at music nerds, but a certain measure of nerdiness was ideal for appreciating the six-episode deep dive, which featured thorough lyrical analysis and ruminations on a unique journey.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The kind of weird minutiae that only nerds pull out of old archives.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of nerds
Noun
  • Not to be outdone, math-magicians on Capitol Hill have been busily subtracting workdays.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Initially, the series was set in London, but fortunately, this was abandoned in favor of an imaginary city, Faybridge, where magicians and non-magicians unknowingly coexist.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of magicians
Noun
  • Since mega masters hearings began in May, immigration data researchers found that the number of people ordered deported when not showing up for a hearing has skyrocketed.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The title refers not only to the horror film my protagonist, Maya, is trying to make, but also to the city’s new masters and to those living in a zombified state of willful ignorance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of masters

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“Wizards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wizards. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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