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маг — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • conjurer noun A person who performs magic.
  • mage noun A magician, wizard, or sorcerer, especially in fantasy fiction and games.
  • Magi noun The wise men from the East, traditionally three, said to have visited the infant Jesus bearing gifts.
  • magician noun A performer of illusions and tricks designed to look like magic.
  • magus noun A magician or sorcerer, sometimes used disapprovingly to mean a fraud or trickster.
  • sorcerer noun Someone who practises magic; a wizard.
  • warlock noun A man who practises magic; often treated as the male counterpart of a witch.
  • wizard noun In folklore and fantasy fiction, a man who practises magic; a sorcerer.

Senses

маг is used for these senses in English:

  • Magi (Christianity) Chiefly preceded by the (three): the wise men who visited and gave gifts to the baby Jesus at the Epiphany (traditionally considered to be three in number and sometimes named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior, but the Bible does not state how many there were or their names).
  • conjurer One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
  • mage (chiefly, fantasy) A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
  • magician A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
  • magus A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.
  • sorcerer (mythology, folklore, fantasy) A magician or wizard. Sometimes specifically male.
  • tape recorder (sound engineering) An electromechanical device use to record and play back sound, etc.
  • warlock A male magic-user; a male witch; a wizard.

conjurer — full definition

  1. noun A person who performs magic.
  2. noun (dated) A person who does clever hand tricks to entertain others.
  3. noun (dated) A person who makes a solemn, formal request or appeal.
  4. noun (dated) A person known for clever guesses or sound judgement.
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