enchanter
/ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/US/ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/
enchanter noun: one who enchants or delights.
Noun
enchanter (plural enchanters)
- One who enchants or delights.
- Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]1991 February 11, “Critics' Voices”, in Time
- A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
- No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113
- He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance...1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI
enchanter meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian
enchanter in Hindi
- enchanter, charmer
- मोहन mohan
- enchanter, sorcerer, wizard
- साहिर sāhir
- enchanter
- सम्मोहक sammohak
enchanter in Malayalam
- ഐന്ദ്രജാലികൻ, മാന്ത്രികൻ, മന്ത്രവാദി, വിമോഹകൻ
enchanter in Kannada
- ಮಾಂತ್ರಿಕ
enchanter in Indonesian
- A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer
- ahli sihir, tukang sihir
Examples of enchanter in a sentence
- Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, lines 2–3:
- […] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:
Forms of enchanter
| plural | enchanters |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | enchantor |
| alternative form (obsolete) | inchantor |
| alternative form (obsolete) | enchantour |
| alternative form (obsolete) | enchauntour |
| alternative form (obsolete) | inchanter |
| alternative form (obsolete, rare) | enchauntor |
Origin of enchanter
From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant + -er.
Words formed from enchanter
Questions about enchanter
- What does enchanter mean?
- Enchanter means one who enchants or delights.
- What is enchanter in Hindi?
- Enchanter in Hindi is मोहन (mohan), साहिर (sāhir), सम्मोहक (sammohak). See Enchanter meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use enchanter in a sentence?
- Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
- What part of speech is enchanter?
- Enchanter is a noun.
- How do you pronounce enchanter?
- Enchanter is pronounced /ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of enchanter?
- The plural of enchanter is enchanters.
Words near enchanter in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: enchanter (page history and authors); मोहन (Hindi) (page history and authors); enchanter (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enchanter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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