CHARMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charmer mean? 

• CHARMER (noun)
  The noun CHARMER has 2 senses:

1. someone with an assured and ingratiating manner

2. a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)

  Familiarity information: CHARMER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone with an assured and ingratiating manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

charmer; smoothie; smoothy; sweet talker

Hypernyms ("charmer" is a kind of...):

dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender (a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives)

Derivation:

charm (attract; cause to be enamored)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beguiler; charmer

Hypernyms ("charmer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "charmer"):

heartbreaker (a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships)

Derivation:

charm (attract; cause to be enamored)

 Context examples 

“’E ain’t what you’d call a charmer when ’e’s sober, but there’s no standing ’im when ’e’s fresh.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)