ENCHANTRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enchantress mean? 

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

1. a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

2. a female sorcerer or magician

  Familiarity information: ENCHANTRESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCHANTRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Delilah; enchantress; femme fatale; siren; temptress

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A female sorcerer or magician

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

enchantress; witch

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

occultist (a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts)

 Context examples 

Ah! you wicked child, cried the enchantress.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting-needles, she showed in the firelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by the radiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of her net by and by.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The king’s son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the gloom of evening therefore, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)