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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 spellboundplay

  Familiarity information: SPELLBINDER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPELLBINDER (noun)


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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