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wizarding

wizarding is the present participle and gerund of wizard.

Meaning of wizard

Verb

wizard (third-person singular simple present wizards, present participle wizarding, simple past and past participle wizarded)

  1. (intransitive) To practice wizardry.
  2. (transitive) To conjure.

See all 10 meanings of wizard

Noun

wizarding (uncountable)

  1. The magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft.
    • And he said he knew the paper was but a forgery, my lord; that His Highness, Rechad Effendi, had never seen it; that his master the American knew this too; that he had learnt all my lord's plans by wizarding, and knew them...1904, Arthur Williams Marchmont, Norman Hardy, By snare of love
    • Not using magic is what wizarding is all about!2000, Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

Origin of wizarding

From wizard + -ing, popularized in the late 1990s by J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

Phrases with wizarding

Questions about wizarding

What does wizarding mean?
Wizarding means the magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft.
What is wizarding the present participle and gerund of?
Wizarding is the present participle and gerund of wizard.
What part of speech is wizarding?
Wizarding is a noun.

Words near wizarding in the dictionary

  1. wizarded
  2. wizardess
  3. wizardesses
  4. wizardest
  5. wizardhood
  6. wizarding
  7. Wizarding World
  8. wizardish
  9. wizardishness
  10. wizardism
  11. wizardkind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wizarding (page history and authors); wizard (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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