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 Definitions of Wizard  [ˈwɪz ərd]  

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Definition of 'Wizard' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) wizard
a person who practices magic; magician or sorcerer.

2.  wizard
a person of amazing skill or accomplishment:
a wizard at chemistry.

3. (adj.) wizard
of or pertaining to a wizard or wizardry; magic; enchanted.

4.  wizard
Brit. Slang. superb.

Etymology:  (1400–50; late ME wisard)

Definition of 'Wizard' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz
someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

2. (adj) sorcerer, magician, wizard, necromancer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist
one who practices magic or sorcery

3. (adj) charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(a), wizard(a), wizardly
possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
"charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers"


Definition of 'Wizard' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) wizard
a man with magic powers in stories
the Wizard of Oz

2.  wizard
sb who is very skilled
a wizard at math


Definition of 'Wizard' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Wizard
enchanting; charming

2. (adj) Wizard
haunted by wizards

3. (noun) Wizard
a wise man; a sage

4. (noun) Wizard
one devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter


Definitions of 'Wizard' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  Wizard
1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it.

2. The term ‘wizard’ is also used intransitively of someone who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving ability.

3. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.

4. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that ‘Unix Wizard’ is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most headhunters.

See guru, lord high fixer. See also deep magic, heavy wizardry, incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance, voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.


Translation of 'Wizard' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a man who is said to have magic powers
a fairy-story about a wizard.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: towenaar, slimmerd Arabic flag Arabic: ساحِر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: магъосник
Brazilian flag Brazilian: feiticeiro Czech flag Czech: kouzelník German flag German: der Hexenmeister, der Zau
Danish flag Danish: troldmand Greek flag Greek: μάγος Spanish flag Spanish: mago, brujo, hechicero
Estonian flag Estonian: võlur Farsi flag Farsi: جادوگر Finnish flag Finnish: velho
French flag French: magicien Hebrew flag Hebrew: קוֹסֵם Hindi flag Hindi: जादूगर
Croatian flag Croatian: čarobnjak Hungarian flag Hungarian: varázsló Indonesian flag Indonesian: penyihir
Icelandic flag Icelandic: galdra-/töframaður Italian flag Italian: mago Japanese flag Japanese: 魔法使い
Korean flag Korean: 마법사 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: burtininkas Latvian flag Latvian: burvis
Malay flag Malay: lelaki tukang sihir Dutch flag Dutch: tovenaar Norwegian flag Norwegian: trollmann
Polish flag Polish: czarnoksiężnik Persian flag Persian: جادوگر Pashto flag Pashto: كوډګر،جادو ګر، ساحر، مدار
Portuguese flag Portuguese: feiticeiro Romanian flag Romanian: vră­jitor; magician Russian flag Russian: волшебник
Slovak flag Slovak: čarodejník Slovenian flag Slovenian: čarovnik Serbian flag Serbian: čarobnjak
Swedish flag Swedish: trollkarl, häxmästare Thai flag Thai: พ่อมด Turkish flag Turkish: büyücü, sihirbaz
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 巫師 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: чарівник, маг Urdu flag Urdu: جادو گر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thầy phù thủy Chinese flag Chinese: 男巫

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