wizard
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)wizards
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any fieldSynonyms: aceadeptchampionsensationmavenmavinvirtuosogeniushotshotstarsuperstarwhizwhizzwizType of expertKinds track star
- one who practices magic or sorcerySynonyms: sorcerermagiciannecromancerthaumaturgethaumaturgistType of occultistKinds witch doctor, sorceress, exorcist, enchanter, magusExamples Alessandro Cagliostro, Cagliostro
Adjective (1)
- 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”Synonyms: charmingmagicmagicalsorcerouswitchingwizardlyOpposite naturalSimilar supernatural
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Translations
Noun person skilled with magic
- Spanish
- mago
- French
- sorcier
- German
- Zauberer
- Italian
- mago
- Portuguese
- bruxo
- Turkish
- büyücü
- Russian
- колду́н koldún
- Arabic
- سَاحِر sāḥir
- Chinese
- 巫师 wūshī
- Japanese
- 魔法使い mahōtsukai
31 more languages
- Dutch
- tovenaar
- Polish
- czarownik
- Swedish
- trollkarl
- Greek
- μάγος mágos
- Korean
- 마법사 mabeopsa
- Indonesian
- ahli sihir
- Vietnamese
- phù thuỷ
- Hungarian
- varázsló
- Portuguese (PT)
- bruxo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 巫師 wūshī
- Albanian
- yshtës
- Catalan
- mag
- Czech
- čaroděj
- Danish
- troldmand
- Esperanto
- sorĉisto
- Estonian
- võlur
- Finnish
- velho
- Georgian
- ჯადოქარი ǯadokari
- Hebrew
- מְכַשֵּׁף mekhashéf
- Icelandic
- galdrakarl
- Latvian
- burvis
- Lithuanian
- burtininkas
- Malagasy
- mpamosavy
- Norwegian
- trollmann
- Romanian
- vrăjitor
- Scottish Gaelic
- draoidh
- Serbo-Croatian
- čarobnjak
- Slovenian
- čarovnik
- Swahili
- mchawi
- Welsh
- dewin
- Yiddish
- מכשף mekhashef
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Probably from wise + -ard.
1. A wise man; a sage. obsolete
See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet!— John Milton
2. One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
The wily wizard must be caught.— John Dryden
1. Enchanting; charming. William Collins
2. Haunted by wizards.
Where Deva spreads her wizard stream.— John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); especially 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.A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.
3.A Unix expert, especially a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that "Unix Wizard" is a recognised 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.
4.An interactive help utility that guides the user through a potentially complex task, such as configuring a PPP driver to work with a new modem. Wizards are often implemented as a sequence of dialog boxes which the user can move forward and backward through, filling in the details required. The implication is that the expertise of a human wizard in one of the above senses is encapsulated in the software wizard, allowing the average user to perform expertly. [Jargon File]
(1998-09-07)
The Jargon File
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.