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SPELLBINDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spellbinder mean?
• SPELLBINDER (noun)
The noun SPELLBINDER has 1 sense:
1. an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
Familiarity information: SPELLBINDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("spellbinder" is a kind of...):
orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)
Derivation:
spellbind (put into a trance)
spellbind (attract strongly, as if with a magnet)
spellbind (to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe)
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