Sorcerer
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A magician or wizard. Sometimes specifically male.
"Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all."
- 2 one who practices magic or sorcery wordnet
- 3 A person whose skills or abilities appear almost magical. figuratively
"The goalscorer was Eberechi Eze, Palace’s sorcerer-in-chief, and it came in the 16th minute from an assist by Daniel Muñoz, who was irrepressible up and down the right."
Example
More examples""The sorcerer disguises himself as a beast, he wears a hide over his head and walks around town. It's my daddy who told me that.""
Etymology
From Middle English sorcerere, from stem sorcer- (as in sorceresse and sorcery) + -ere, from Old French sorcer, sorcier, from Early Medieval Latin sortiārius, derived from Latin sortem (“fate, fortune”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
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