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Charm

Definition: Charm

Charm

Noun

1. Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates.

2. A verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese".

3. Something believed to bring good luck.

Verb

1. Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts".

2. Control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft.

3. Protect through supernatural powers or charms.

4. Induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "charm" was first used: 13th century. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Charm

DomainDefinition

Computing

CHARM An explicitly parallel programming language based on C, for both shared and nonshared MIMD computers. (ftp://a.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/CHARM) Mailing list: . ["The CHARM(3.2) Programming Language Manual", UIUC (Dec 1992)]. CHARM++ An object-oriented parallel programming system, similar to CHARM but based on C++. (ftp://a.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/CHARM/Charm++) E-mail: Sanjeev Krishnan . [TR 1796, UIUC]. (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

Charm means a song. Incantation is singing on or against some one. Enchant is the same. (Latin, carmen. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

CHARM. A picklock. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Charm

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In the world of paranormal magic, a charm can mean either:

When a charm is a spell, it is usually traditional in form and often in verse.

See also: hoodoo, pow-wow (folk magic), vodun

Charm is also the name of an attribute of quarks (subatomic particles), and the name of a kind of quark posessing that attribute.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Charm."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Charm

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CHARM

EnglishChecking,Accounting and Reporting for Member FirmsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Charm

Synonyms: appeal (n), appealingness (n), good luck charm (n), magic spell (n), spell (n), becharm (v), beguile (v), bewitch (v), captivate (v), capture (v), catch (v), enamor (v), enamour (v), enchant (v), entrance (v), fascinate (v), influence (v), tempt (v), trance (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Charm

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beauty

Concinnity, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi, style.

Jewelry

Necklace, bracelet, anklet; earring; locket, pendant, charm bracelet; ring, pinky ring; carcanet; chain, chatelaine; broach, pin, lapel pin, torque.

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple.

Pain

Please, charm, delight, becharm, imparadise; gladden; (make cheerful); take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish.

Preservation

Snake oil, spider webs, cure-all; laetrile; charm.

Sorcery

Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.

Spell

Noun: spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala, exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Charm

English words defined with "charm": Abraxas, Ague spell, allure, allurement, Amuletic, animal magnetism, append, attractivebeguilement, bewitcheryCantrip, charm quark, Chelidonius, Christcross-row, combine, Countercharm, Cramp bone, cutedebonair, debonaire, debonnaire, Decharm, Delectate, disarm, Disencharm, drab, drearyEffascinatefetich, fetish, fulsomenessglamor, glamour, grace, gracioushang on, hoodooidyll, influencejujuLove charmmagic spell, Medicine bagNight spellPeriapt, popularity, precioussmarm, spell, suavetack on, tag on, Telesm, tempt, temptingness, To carry awayunabashed, unattractive, Uncharm, unction, unembarrassed, ungracious, unite, unlovely, unpicturesque, unscrupulouslyvoodoowinsomeness, With a bad grace, work. (references)
Specialty definitions using "charm": AsmodeusBevilCoral BeadsDeaf Adder, DESLYSHinc illæ Lacrymæ, HOCUS POCUSlanguage, Life is hardMont St. MichelOm, O'pal, Open, SesamePatrick's Grave, PEPEROMIA GLAIOIDESrealismSnake-Stones, Spitting for Luck, Stable Keys, Stolen Things are SweetTaste. (references)
Etymologies containing "charm": Disencharm. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Charm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Russian (talisman), Swedish (attraction, charm, glamor, glamour, sweetness).

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Modern Usage: Charm

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well, I say it with a great deal of charm. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

He's got a lot of charm. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion (A Streetcar Named Desire; writing credit: Tennessee Williams; Oscar Saul)

It's the secret of my charm. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

I live up to the very edge of my charm. (Afterglow; writing credit: Alan Rudolph)

Lyrics

With a good luck charm like you (Good Luck Charm; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

The disco hot spots hold no charm for you (Heat of the Moment; performing artist: Asia)

With the charm of Robert Redford (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

And rockin platinum charm bracelets (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child)

I know you got charm and appeal (Upside Down; performing artist: Diana Ross)

Clever

You can survive on charm for about 5 minutes. After that, you'd better know something! (references; author: unknown)

Beauty is quite different from charm: beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is when a woman notices you. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite (1968)

School for Charm (1950)

The Saxon Charm (1948)

Moments of Charm (1939)

Charm Bracelet (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Charm

DomainTitle

References

  • Uni Charm Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Charm

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Photo Album: Charm

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The national restlessness makes for a gayety and charm of its own. Credit: Library of Congress.

The eternal feminine. Old Betsy simply couldn't resist the charm of Mrs. Flibbets' lovely ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Can he charm it?. Credit: Library of Congress.

The only way Speaker - "The only way we can gain women's suffrage is by making our appeal through our charm, our grace, and our beauty" / / Held. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Charm
 

"Lucky charm" by Ariel C.
Commentary: "My gf's lucky charm."
"Bike racer's mascot" by L L
Commentary: "Motorbike racer's lucky charm, at Olivers Mount, Scarborough, UK."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Charm".

PlayCaption
Purr; meow; content; rumble; appease; bewitch; captivate; charm; delight; enrapture; gladden; gratify; humor; indulge; make happy; mollify; placate; reconcile; satisfy; suffice; thrill; tickle; please; feline.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Charm

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A city of southern efficiency and northern charm.

John Mason Brown

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Kahlil Gibran

Love has power that dispels Death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Marcus T. Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oscar Wilde

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Forbidden things have a secret charm.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Charm

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Charm

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

The acquaintance at present had no charm for her.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Such innocent eccentricities have a charm for the young

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

She picked out the ring, the watch charm, the earrings, dug under the pile and found one gold cuff link

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Charm

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Charm

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Al Hunt

Bob, you know, John Sununu's victory just broke Democratic hearts. They thought they could win that seat. He ran a good campaign and also for him, he was fortunate, he inherited his mother's, as opposed to his father's charm.

Joan Rivers

I'm sure he's a wonderful guest. I'm sure he's full of charm when he wants to be. And I have stories, I'm not going to go in it, that he's done terrible things to people that can't answer him back. Not my boy.

Mariah Carey

Well, it's got a kind of personal significance. My father's mother had a charm bracelet, and I didn't know this. I'd been wearing this charm bracelet for awhile.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Charm

"Charm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.18% of the time. "Charm" is used about 1,240 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.18%1,1436,703
Lexical Verb (infinitive)5.96%7438,813
Lexical Verb (base form)1.77%2274,468
Noun (proper)0.08%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,240N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Charm

The following table summarizes the usage of "charm" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CharmLast name17052,475
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Charm

CountryName
Japan

Uni Charm Corporation

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Charm

Expressions using "charm": be under a charm charm away charm love charm of style charm quark charm smb. feminine charm good luck charm Love charm lucky charm personal charm turn on the charm. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "charm": charm-seller.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Charm

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

southern charm

5,155

charm password southern

116

italian charm

3,277

cereal charm lucky

113

italian charm bracelet

2,917

melonie charm

104

charm bracelet

2,284

disney italian charm

102

chelsea charm

2,211

gold charm bracelet

100

charm

2,110

nomination charm bracelet

97

lucky charm

1,527

wholesale charm

89

photo charm

690

zoppini charm bracelet

89

sterling silver charm

575

pewter charm

89

silver charm

431

disney charm

79

gold charm

398

zoppini italian charm

78

zoppini charm

310

sport charm

76

wine charm

224

chelsea charm pic

69

nomination charm

224

sterling silver charm bracelet

68

italian charm wholesale

220

14k gold charm

66

jewelry charm

189

charm for charm bracelet

66

good luck charm

151

necklace charm

65

silver charm bracelet

145

charm school

65

nikki charm

131

italian modular charm

64

wine glass charm

116

wholesale sterling silver charm

64
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Charm

Language Translations for "charm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bekoring (temptation), bekoorlikheid, bekoor (attract, draw, entice, tempt), amulet (amulet, talisman), aanvalligheid, aantreklikheid (attraction, attractiveness), aanloklikheid (attraction, attractiveness). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), stringël (bagatelle, bauble, bibelot, bijouterie, curio, falderal, frippery, gaud, knick knack, Nick nack, pendant, pennant, rattletrap, trinket), magjepsje (bewitchment, diabolism, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, mystique, rapture, ravishment, witchery), magjeps (bewitch, captivate, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, hex, infatuate, ravish, spellbind), joshë (allure, appeal, bewitchment, glamor, glamour, lure, pull, smell), josh (attract, bewitch, dangle, dazzle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp, wile), hir (grace, gracefulness, graciousness, sake), hijeshi (delicacy, elegance, elegancy, grace), hajmali (talisman), bukuri (beauty, glory, pulchritude, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فتنة سحر (charisma), ‏فتن (bewitch, captivate, enchant, enthral, enthrall, enthralling, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, infatuate, love, magnetize, mesmerize, ravish, rejoice, seduce, smite, spellbind, tempt, thrill, witch), ‏مفاتن (attractions, beauties, charms), ‏مارس السحر (conjure, hex, spellbind), ‏حلية صغيرة (knick knack), ‏تعويذة (abracadabra, amulet, exorcism, incantation, mascot, phylactery, talisman, voodoo), ‏سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), ‏عوذ, ‏عذوية, ‏طلاوة (beauty, grace), ‏جمال (beauty, grace, gracefulness, loveliness, prettiness, shapeliness), ‏جذب (allure, attract, attraction, catch, engage, entice, hale, haul, magnetize, press, pull, rivet, strain, tempt), ‏رقية (exorcism, incantation, spell), ‏روعة (glamor, glamour, magnificence, splendor, splendour, wonderment), ‏ظرف (aggravation, circumstance, envelope, esprit, occurrence, particularity, receptacle, situation, wit, wittiness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чар (allure, allurement, attraction, bewitchment, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness, lure, magic, magnetism, spell, wizardry), талисман (amulet, mascot, medicine, phylactery, talisman), очарование (allurement, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour), очаровам (bewitch, captivate, delight, ecstasize, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, fascinate, glamor, glamour, ravish, spellbind, take captive), омая (spell), омагьосвам (bedevil, bewitch, enchant, glamor, glamour, hoodoo, spellbind, voodoo, witch), омайвам (enchant, enthral, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, infatuate), обаяние (enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, lure, magic), магия (bewitchment, black art, cantrip, conjuration, enchantment, hex, magic, necromancy, obi, theurgy, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry), заклинание (adjuration, conjuration, exorcism, incantation, invocation, obtestation, paternoster, spell), привлекателност (allure, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, congeniality, desirability, glamor, glamour, pizzazz, prettiness, relish, seduction, sightliness, solicitation), пленявам (captivate, capture, enchant, enslave, fascinate, ravish, snow, take captive, take prisoner), пленителност (fascination), доставям удоволствие (gratify, joy, regale). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

魅力 (fascination, glamour). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zaklínadlo (incantation), talisman (mascot, talisman), roztomilost (cuteness, loveliness), pùvab (amenity, attraction, attractiveness, comeliness, glamor, glamour, grace, gracefulness, pleasure, savor), okouzlit (beguile, bewitch, enamor, enamour, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, glamorize, spell, spellbind, transport), maskot (mascot), kouzlo (lure, magic, romance, savor, spell, trick, witchery), šarm. (various references)

   

Danish

  

ynde. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

charme. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

amuleto (amulet, talisman), amindo (sweetness), allogeco (attraction, attractiveness), ĉarmo, ĉarmi. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فریفتن (Bewitch, Captivate, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Jilt, Lure, Poop, Seduce, Skunk, Tempt, Wile), فریبندگی (Glamor, Glamour, Grace), مسحورکردن (Bedevil, Bewitch, Ravish), سحر (Incantation, Magic, Spell, Wizardry), طلسم (Abracadabra, Amulet, Glamor, Glamour, Incantation, Juju, Ligature, Spell, Talisman), شیفتن (Allure, Captivate, Mash), دلرباءی (Mash, Oomph). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sulous (grace, sweetness), hurmata (captivate, delight, enrapture, fascinate), hurmaus (enchantment, fascination), ihastuttaa (delight, fascinate), loitsu (incantation, spell), lumota (bewitch, enchant), lumous (enchantment, spell), miellyttävyys (pleasantness), hempeys (gentleness, loveliness, sweetness), suloisuus (loveliness, sweetness), viehkeys (grace), taika (magic, spell, witchcraft), taikaisku (amulet, talisman), taikakalu (amulet, talisman), tenho (enchantment, fascination, glamour), tenhota (enchant, fascinate), viehättää (fascinate), viehätys (attraction, grace), sulo (grace). (various references)

   

French

  

charme, amulette. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

bekoaring, bekoare. (various references)

   

German

  

charme (grace), anmut (amenity, beauty, comeliness, grace, gracefulness, graces, loveliness), zauber (delusion, enchantment, incantation, magic, sorcery, spell, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry), reiz (alluringness, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, bait, charmingness, glamor, glamour, impulse, lure, relish, savor, savour, stimulus), zauberformel (incantation, magic formula), liebreiz, amulett (amulet, talisman). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γοητεία (allurement, bewitchment, fascination, mesmerism, mystique, sorcery, spell, witchery), γοητεύω (bedevil, beguile, bewitch, enchant, enrapture, enthral, fascinate, hex, mesmerize, ravish, spell, witch), μαγεύω (bewitch, hex, vamp, witch), θέλγω (bewitch, enchant, fascinate, ravish). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחמד (delight, desire, loveliness), יופי (aesthetics, beauty, fine, loveliness, lovely, niceness, prettiness, pulchritude, splendor, wonderful), לקסום (bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, divine, enchant, fascinate), לכשף (bewitch, enchant, spell), להקסים (cast a spell on, enchant, fascinate, fetch, ravish, spellbind), קמע, קסם (allure, divination, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, magic, spell, witchcraft), חמד (delight, grace, loveliness), חן (beauty, favour, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, loveliness, prettiness), הקסמה (appeal, attraction, fascination, spell), נועם (gracefulness, graciousness, loveliness, mildness, pleasantness, tenderness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kellem (affability, amenity, grace, gracefulness), báj (allurement, blandishments, grace), amulett (amulet, periapt, talisman). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pukauan, mantera (incantation, magic sentence), daya pesona, azimat (amulet, mascot), ajian (magical formula, spell), aji (magical formula, spell). (various references)

   

Italian

  

incanto (allurement, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, magic, spell, witchery), fascino (allurement, fascination, glamor, glamour, mystique, spell, witchery), attrattiva (allurement, alluringness, attraction, attractiveness, charmingness, relish, showplace). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

色香 (colour & scent, loveliness), 魅力 (fascination, glamour), 魅惑 (attraction, captivation, fascination, lure), (appearance, effect, gist, grace, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ごふ (amulet, talisman), みえ (appearance, attraction, display, pose, posture, show, vanity), みょうみ (exquisite, profit), みわく (attraction, captivation, fascination, lure), みりょく (fascination, glamour), みばえ (appearance, attraction, display, show, vanity), じょうみ (attractiveness, humanity), じゅもん (incantation, spell), じゅふ (amulet), シャルム , えんび (beauty), れいしつ (beauty, genius, your wife), おまもり (amulet), いろけ (a shade of colour, colouring, desire, glamor, interest in the opposite sex, poetry, romance, seductiveness, sensuality, sex appeal, sexual passion), いろか (colour and scent, loveliness), ふだ (card, label, talisman, ticket, token), まもり (defense, protection, safeguard, talisman), まりょく (magical power), ひとずき (amiability, attractiveness), びてん (good point, merit, virtue), チャーム , おもむき (appearance, aspect, effect, gist, grace, influence, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor), あいきょう (attractiveness, courtesy, love and respect, love for one's hometown). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

애교 (CHARM++). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheeanys (blessedness), pishag (incantation, spell), fockle (vocable, word, word of honour), druaightey, druaight (druid), cur y fockle er, cur fo druaight. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armchay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

encanto (allurement, amenity, appeal, attraction, beauty, bewitchment, delectation, delight, dribblet, enchantment, endearment, enticement, grace, loveliness, medicine, niceness, pleasantness, prettiness, rapture, ravishment, relish, seduction, sorcery, spell, style, witchcraft, witchery), fascinar (alluring, becharm, bewitch, captivate, entrance, fascinate, fascinating, glamor, glamour, lure, magnetize), encantar (allure, appeal, becharm, bewitch, conjure, delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, fetch, flatter, glamor, glamour, lure, rapture), charme, amuleto (abracadabra, amulet, periapt, phylactery, talisman). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

captiva (captivate, engage, engross, ensnare, fascinate, subjugate, win), fetiş (fetish, mumbo jumbo), încânta (bewitch, captivate, delight, delude, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, get over, glamor, glamour, gratify, imparadise, ravish, seduce, smite), încântare (amusement, delight, enchantment, pleasuring, rapture, ravishing, ravishment), amuletã (amulet, periapt, phylactery, talisman), atracţie (amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, draw, endearment, enticement, fancy, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, mind, pull, seduction), breloc (pendant, trinket, trumpery), dezmierdare (caress, stroke, voluptuousness), drãgãlãşenie (comeliness, cuteness, gracefulness, loveliness), face vrãji, farmec (allurement, amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, delight, enchantment, endearment, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, loveliness, lure, relish, salt, seduction, sex appeal, spell, spicery, witchery), farmece (magic, spell-work), ţintui (arrest, clench, clinch, fascinate, fasten, fasten on, fasten upon, fix, nail, nail down, peg at, pin, rivet, stud, tack), fermeca (allure, bedevil, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take), vrajã (allurement, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, relish, spell, witchery), graţie (daintiness, goodliness, grace, gracefulness, handsomeness, thanks to), lega (associate, attach, band, bend, bequeath, bind, bind up, brace, coagulate, conjoin, connect, cord, couple, encircle, express, fasten, fetter, hitch, insert, interlink, interlock, join, joint, knit, knot, link, mate, pack, relate, shackle, sheave, start, tackle, tether, tie, unite), magnetiza (hypnotize, magnetize, pole), miraj (mirage), nuri (carry, charms, sex appeal), obroci, poezie (beauty, line, parnassus, piece of poetry, poem, poesy, poetry, rep, rhyme, verse), savoare (Flavor, flavour, savor, savour, smack, taste), seducţie (attraction, seduction), talisman (amulet, Joss, mascot, periapt, talisman), transporta (bear, carry, carry away, cart, convey, deport, drive, forward, haul, remove, transport), vrãji (allure, bedevil, bewitch, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, enchant, enrapture, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, lure, spell, spellbind), fascina (bewitch, fascinate, glamor, glamour, magnetize, mesmerize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

очаровывать обаяние очаровательный, очаровывать (captivate, enchant, enthral, fascinate, mesmerize, ravish, spellbind), очарование (allure, bewitchment, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness), обаяние (bewitchment, charisma, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour), амулет (amulet, ju-ju, medicine, periapt, phylactery), брелок (bibelot, key ring, pendant, trinket). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

loinn (a badge, comeliness, glade, good condition). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vradžbina (obi, pishogue, sorcery, spell, theurgy), draž (cantrip, grace, lure, savor, savour), šarm (cantrip). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

encanto (delight, glamor, glamour, joy, kaif, keif, kief, loveliness, lure, spell, sweetheart), gracia (cuteness, die, drollery, gain, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, humor, humour, loveliness, wit), encantar (attract, bewitch, captivate, delight, draw, enchant, entrance, glamor, glamour, incant, joy, love, ravish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tjusning (allure, allurement, fascination), tjusa (allure, beguile, captivate, enchant), charm (attraction, glamor, glamour, sweetness), behag (allurements, amenit, amenity, charms, delight, grace, pleasure, will). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, magnetize, prepossess, wile), cazip gelmek, cazibe (allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, oomph, romance, seduction, witchery), sihir (conjuration, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, magic, sorcery, sortilege, spell, witchery), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), afsun (incantation, spell), alımlılık (attraction, comeliness, spell), albeni (allure, allurement, attractiveness, blandishments, sales appeal), büyü (enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, hex, hoodoo, incantation, magic, maya, medicine, romance, sorcery, sortilege, spell, the black art, voodoo, witchcraft, witchery), çekicilik (affinity, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, comeliness, desirability, fascination, gilt, glamor, glamour, it, oomph, pull, romance, seduction, sex appeal, sexiness, witchery), sevimlilik (amiability, cuteness, geniality, loveliness, niceness, suavity, sweetness), tılsım (amulet, spell, talisman), hayran bırakmak (amaze, ecstasize, enthuse, entrance, fascinate), korumak (buffer, cocoon, conserve, convoy, cover, defend, embosom, embower, encourage, escort, fence, guard, indemnify, keep, keep guard, maintain, patronize, preserve, protect, safeguard, save, screen, secure, shade, shelter, shield, spare, sponsor, vindicate, ward), memnun etmek (comfort, content, gladden, gratify, humor, humour, indulge, make happy, oblige, please, rejoice, satisfy, suit), muska (amulet), nazarlık (amulet), büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

заклинати (adjure, obtest), принади (amenities), принадність (allurement, amenity), привабливість (affinity, amiability, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, buxomness, grace, loveliness, magnetism, pull, relish), приручати (domesticate, gentle, tame), амулет (amulet, periapt, saphie, voodoo), замовляти (charter, engage, order), полонити (bewitch, captivate, capture), заклинання (adjuration, conjuration, exorcism, incantation, mantra, paternoster, spell), чарувати (attract, captivate, enthral, enthrall), наговір, гомін (babble, buzz, chirm, clabber, clamor, clamour, hullabaloo, hum, jangle, noise), гроші (balsam, bean, blunt, brass, cash, chink, clink, dibs, dime, dough, l.s.d., money, moo, necessary, needful, ocher, ochre, oil, oof, pelf, posh, scads, shekels, sugar, the stuff, treasure, wherewithal), талісман (amulet, mascot, talisman), чари (bewitchment, cantrip, fascination, glamor, glamour, spell), чарівність (appeal, appealingness, attraction, bewitchment, charisma, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness, prettiness), заворожувати (enchant). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sắc đẹp (beauty, sightliness), sức quyến rũ bị mê hoặc, sức mê hoặc bùa mê, phép yêu ma nhan sắc, ngải (incantation, philter, philtre), duyên sức hấp dẫn, bùa yêu, bị bỏ bùa. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cyfareddu (enchant), cyfaredd (spell), swyno (beguile, bewitch, enchant), swyn (fascination, magic, spell), hudo (allure, attract, beguile), hud (enchantment, illusion, magic), aswyno (beseech, conjure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Charm

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

hi-li, u. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

abducant, abducemini, abduci, abducta, abducti, abductos, abductus, abduxerunt, abduxit, abduxitque, blandimenta, blandimento, blanditia, blanditiis, cantatio, carmen, delectabar, delectaberis, delectabit, delectabitur, delectabor, delectabunt, delectabuntur, delectamini, delectans, delectare, delectari, delectaris, delectasti, delectat, delectata, delectati, delectatur, delectatus, delectaverunt, delectentur, delecteris, dulcedine, dulcedinem, dulcedinis, dulcedo, festivitate, festivitatem, festivitates, festivitatis, inlecebris, iucunditas, lepor lepos, leporem, mulsisti, mulsum, phylacterium, præbia, suavitate, suavitatem, suavitatis, venustas. (various references)

Sanskrit300 BCE-Modern

mantra-s. (various references)

Old French900-1400

charme. (various references)

Portugese1100-Modern

fetio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Charm

Derivations

Words beginning with "charm": charmed, charmer, charmers, charmeuse, charmeuses, charming, charminger, charmingest, charmingly, charmless, charms. (additional references)

Words ending with "charm": becharm, outcharm. (additional references)

Words containing "charm": becharmed, becharming, becharms, outcharmed, outcharming, outcharms, uncharming. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Charm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cahem, Cahm, cahr, Cahrc, carm, Chaam, chaim, chairm, Chairn, Chakma, chalm, chamf, Chara, Charemza, charg, chari, charl, charma, charme, charmi, Charmm, charmy, charn, Charnd, Charny, Charr, charz, chern, chiram, Chogm, chrem, Churm, Ickham, Khar, schirm, Schorm, sharm. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Charm"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "charm" (pronounced khÄ"rm)
3-Ä" r malarm, arm, nonfarm, disarm, farm, forearm, harm, rearm, unarm, underarm.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Charm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: march.

Words within the letters "a-c-h-m-r"

-1 letter: arch, cham, char, cram, harm, mach, marc.

-2 letters: arc, arm, cam, car, ham, mac, mar, rah, ram.

-3 letters: ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-m-r"
 

+1 letter: charms, chimar, chroma, drachm.

 

+2 letters: becharm, brecham, camphor, chamber, chamfer, champer, charism, charmed, charmer, chimars, chimera, chrisma, chromas, dharmic, drachma, drachms, machree, machzor, marched, marchen, marcher, marches, matcher, mesarch, monarch, nomarch, rematch, schmear.

 

+3 letters: achromat, achromic, archaism, armchair, arythmic, becharms, brachium, brechams, camphire, camphors, cashmere, chadarim, chairman, chairmen, chambers, chambray, chamfers, chamfron, champers, charisma, charisms, charmers, charming, chedarim, chimaera, chimeras, choreman, choriamb, chrismal, chromate, demarche, drachmae, drachmai, drachmas, echogram, harmonic, machrees, machzors, marchers, marchesa, marchese, marchesi, marching, mariachi, matchers, menarche, merchant, monarchs, monarchy, nomarchs, nomarchy, omniarch, outcharm, outmarch, pharmacy, ranchman, ranchmen, rhematic, schmears, shamrock, trachoma.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Frequency
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations
25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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