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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"

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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

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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.

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