wizard
Syllables: wi·zardUK/ˈwɪzəd/
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New Zealand/ˈwəzəd/
wizard noun: someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
Noun
wizard (plural wizards)
- Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
- The wizard conjured up a large fireball.
- The wily wizard must be caught.1697, John Dryden, Translation of Virgil's Georgics
- One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
- He was a financial wizard, capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets.
- A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
- Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.
- Figure 10-10 shows a typical wizard. The user enters data in New Employee on each tab and then moves on to the next one. This wizard asks […]2010 September 17, Bill Evjen, Christian Nagel, Rod Stephens, Robert Vieira, Nick Randolph, .NET 4 Wrox PDF Bundle: Professional ASP.NET 4, Professional C# 4, VB 2010 Programmer's Ref, WPF...
- Synonyms:
- assistant
- An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode.
- Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]1997, Philip Agre and Douglas Schuler, Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice, page 153
- It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress […]1997, Sara Kiesler, editor, Culture of the Internet, page 132
- A wise man; a sage.
- See how from far upon the eastern road / The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odours sweet!1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC
- A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.
- “I see this image of the basement-dwelling wizard who rejects societal conventions to such an extreme degree as one of the tragic heroes of our times.”2014 September 23, Joe Zadeh, quoting Jon Rafman, “"Musician rebels embrace darknet to explore uncensored internet frontiers”, in Guardian
- The incels’ folk hero is the 30-year-old virgin wizard – if you can make it to 30 without having sex, you will be endowed with magical powers. And the threads are so pathetic that it is hard to feel anything but ambient pity (on the site Wiz Chan – subtitle “disregard females, acquire magic” – one...2018 April 25, Zoe Williams, “‘Raw hatred’: why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women”, in The Guardian
- Someone who deepfakes pornographic material using content from social media (usually selfies of people) at the request of others.
Adjective
wizard (not comparable)
- Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).
- "We had a wizard show," the young leader of an Australian squadron said, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice.1942, Quentin James Reynolds, Only the Stars are Neutral
- But he was a wizard flyer, that boy.1943, Howard Macy Coffin and Walter Leslie River, Malta Story
Verb
wizard (third-person singular simple present wizards, present participle wizarding, simple past and past participle wizarded)
wizard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
wizard in Hindi
- person skilled with magic
- जादूगर jādūgar, ओझा ojhā, अभिचारक abhicārak, साहिर sāhir, मान्त्रिक māntrik
wizard in Tamil
- மேதை, மாயாவி, அற்புதங்கள் நிகழ்த்தும்மந்திரவாதி, சூனியக்காரன், வழிகாட்டி
wizard in Urdu
- person skilled with magic
- جادُوگَر jādūgar, ساحِر sāhir, سِحْر باز sihr bāz
wizard in Bengali
- person skilled with magic
- জাদুকর jadukor
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- wizard in Malayalam
- മാന്ത്രികൻ, മന്ത്രവാദി, മായാവി
- wizard in Kannada
- ಮಾಂತ್ರಿಕ māntrika
- wizard in Gujarati
- જાદુગર jādugar
- wizard in Odia
- ଓଝା ojhā
- wizard in Assamese
- ওজা üza, যাদুকৰ zadukor
- wizard in Pashto
- جادوګر jādugar, سحرګر sehrgar, مغ moǧ
- wizard in Tagalog
- asbang
- wizard in Arabic
- سَاحِر sāḥir, مُشَعْوِذ mušaʕwiḏ
- wizard in Malay
- sahir, baz, ahli sihir
- wizard in Indonesian
- ahli sihir, tukang sihir, penyihir, penuntun
- wizard in Thai
- พ่อมด pɔ̂ɔ-mót
- wizard in Vietnamese
- phù thuỷ, thuật sĩ, trình thuật sĩ, trình hướng dẫn
- wizard in Myanmar
- ကဝေ ka.we
- Dzongkha
- སྒྱུ་མ་མཁན sgyu ma mkhan
Examples of wizard in a sentence
- He found himself watching a couple of wizards doing what he at first mistook for the beginning of a dance, and then for a session of tai chi.2016 February 2, Diane Duane, Games Wizards Play, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
- But that's not what will make her a powerful wizard – more powerful than me, more powerful than Leesha, even more powerful than you.2021 November 1, Dale Stubbart, The Wizard Without a Wand, Dale Stubbart:
- The incels’ folk hero is the 30-year-old virgin wizard – if you can make it to 30 without having sex, you will be endowed with magical powers.2018 April 25, Zoe Williams, “‘Raw hatred’: why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women”, in The Guardian:
- For example if you’re over 30 and still a virgin they call you a "Wizard."2018 April 25, Oli Dugmore, “What is an incel? A former member of the internet subculture explains”, in JOE:
Synonyms of wizard
Forms of wizard
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wizards |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wizards |
| present participle | wizarding |
| past participle | wizarded |
| past | wizarded |
Origin of wizard
From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval English word with no known morphologically exact cognates in other Germanic languages; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance. However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún). The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme in which virgins who are typically friendless, shy outcasts and loners who don't fit in anywhere legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces. Compare typologically specialist (<< Latin speciō).
Words formed from wizard
Phrases with wizard
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Questions about wizard
- What does wizard mean?
- Wizard means someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
- What is wizard in Hindi?
- Wizard in Hindi is जादूगर (jādūgar), ओझा (ojhā), अभिचारक (abhicārak). See Wizard meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use wizard in a sentence?
- He found himself watching a couple of wizards doing what he at first mistook for the beginning of a dance, and then for a session of tai chi.
- What part of speech is wizard?
- Wizard can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wizard?
- Wizard is pronounced /ˈwɪzəd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wizard?
- The plural of wizard is wizards.
Words near wizard in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wizard (page history and authors); wizard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wizard (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଓଝା (Odia) (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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