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Definition: Charm |
CharmNoun1. 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. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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: |
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. |
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(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.
- An amulet, or
- A spell.
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."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CHARM | English | Checking,Accounting and Reporting for Member Firms | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CharmSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. |
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| "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." |
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| Play | Caption |
| 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. | |
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.18% | 1,143 | 6,703 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.96% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.77% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,240 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Charm | Last name | 170 | 52,475 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Uni Charm Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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), 趣 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | hi-li, u. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 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) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | mantra-s. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | charme. (various references) |
| Portugese | 1100-Modern | fetio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "charm" (pronounced khÄ"rm) |
| 3 | -Ä" r m | alarm, arm, nonfarm, disarm, farm, forearm, harm, rearm, unarm, underarm. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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