Dictionary Definition
magician
Noun
1 someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an
audience [syn: prestidigitator,
conjurer, conjuror, illusionist]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From magic + -ian.Pronunciation
- /məˈʤɪʃən/, /m@"dZIS@n/
- Hyphenation: ma·gi·cian
- Rhymes with: -ɪʃən
Noun
- A person who plays with or practices magic.
- A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts qualifier often derogatory.
- A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
- A talented craftsman or scientist.
- A person who is an enigma.
Synonyms
- sense practitioner of magic sorcerer, thaumaturge, wizard, warlock, witch
- spiritualist, mystic, witch doctor
- sense performer of tricks wizard, trickster
- sense talented craftsman or scientist whizz, whiz, wiz, wizard
- sense person who is an enigma
Translations
practitioner of magic
- Czech: kouzelník
- Hungarian: mágus, bűvész
- West Frisian: tsjoender
spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts
- West Frisian: tsjoender
a performer of tricks
- Polish: magik
- Portuguese: mágico, ilusionista
talented craftsman or scientist
person who is an enigma
- ttbc Arabic: ساحر
- ttbc Balinese: balian
- ttbc Bosnian: mađioničar , čarobnjak , čarobnica
- ttbc Breton: strobineller , majisian , hudour
- ttbc Chinese: 魔术家 (mó shù jiā)
- ttbc French: magicien , magicienne (1)
- ttbc German: Magier , Zauberer
- ttbc Hebrew:
- ttbc Indonesian: dukun
- ttbc Icelandic: töframaður , galdramaður
- ttbc Italian: mago , maga (1)
- ttbc Latin: magus
- ttbc Old English: wiċċa
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: draoidh
- ttbc Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
мађионичар ,
чаробњак ,
чаробница
- Roman: mađioničar , čarobnjak , čarobnica
- Cyrillic:
мађионичар ,
чаробњак ,
чаробница
- ttbc Slovak: čarodejník
- ttbc Spanish: mago, hechicero
- ttbc Telugu: ఐంద్రజాలికుడు, ఇంద్రజాలికుడు, మంత్రగాడు
Extensive Definition
Magician may refer to:
Magician or The Magician may also refer to:
- The Magician (Tarot card), the first of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck
In music:
- Magician (band), a Brazilian metal band
- Magician a minor character from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- The Magician (Maugham novel), a novel by Somerset Maugham
- Magician, a fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist in the Riftwar series
- The Magician, a novel by Leitch Ritchie
- The Magician's Nephew, a novel by C.S. Lewis in his Narnia series
- The Magus (novel), a novel by John Fowles
In film and television:
- The Magician (1926 film), a horror film directed by Rex Ingram
- The Magician (1958 film), a film by Ingmar Bergman
- The Magician (2005 film), an Australian film directed by Scott Ryan
- Magicians (2007 film), a film directed by Andrew O'Connor
- The Magician (TV series), an American television series that ran during the 1973-1974 season
- The Magician (animated series), an animated television series by Gaumont Multimedia that aired on Fox Kids in 1999
In sport:
- Fabrice Santoro, French tennis player, commonly referred to as 'The Magician'
In other media:
- Magician (video game), a 1991 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
- Magician (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics' Ultimate X-Men
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, wizard