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Enchanter

Definition: Enchanter

Enchanter

Noun

1. A sorcerer or magician.

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

Date "enchanter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Enchanter \En*chant"er\, noun. [Compare to the French expression enchanteur.]. (Websters 1913)



Crosswords: Enchanter

English words defined with "enchanter": ArchimagusEnchanter's nightshade. (references)
Specialty definitions using "enchanter": AlquifeBusiraneCastle of IndolenceFrestonLady of the LakeWindmills. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Enchanter" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (bewitch, delight, enchant, ravish, rejoice, smite).

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Commercial Usage: Enchanter

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Enchanter

Computer Images:
Enchanter

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Familiar Quotations: Enchanter

AuthorQuotation

Whittier

The tents of autumn -- a mighty flower garden, blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Enchanter

"Enchanter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.43% of the time. "Enchanter" is used about 35 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)91.43%3261,292
Noun (proper)8.57%3202,518
                    Total100.00%35N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Enchanter

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "enchanter".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
HalloeshN/ABiblical

An enchanter

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Enchanter

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "enchanter": prince-enchanter.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enchanter

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

ever quest enchanter

50

enchanter

31

enchanter eq

24

enchanter epic

15

enchanter epic ever quest

7

enchanter ever quest spells

6

enchanter tim

5

daoc enchanter

5

enchanter ever guide quest

5

enchanter spells

4

enchanter eq spells

4

enchanter epic quest

4

art enchanter

4

enchanter ever quest quest

3

enchanter quest

3

enchanter research

2

enchanter list spell

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Enchanter

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

Afrikaan

  

towenaar (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

magjistar (conjurer, conjuror, fascinator, mage, magician, magus, medicine man, sorcerer, thaumaturge, Warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الساحر (charmer, conjurer, magician, sorcerer, voodoo, warlock, wizard), ‏العراف (astrologer, augur, seer, soothsayer, warlock, witchdoctor, wizard). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чаровен човек, чародей (magician), магьостник. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kouzelník (conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, mage, magician, magus, medicine man, sorcerer, spellbinder, wise man, witchdoctor, wizard). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tovenaar (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard), duivelskunstenaar (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sorĉisto (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

French

  

enchanteur (enchanting, entrancing). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

tsjoender (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

German

  

Zauberer (captivator, conjurer, magician, sorcerer, sorcerers, warlock, wizard, wizards). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γόησ (charmer, sorcerer). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אשף (bat, magician, sorcerer, wizard). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

varázsló (cole prophet, conjurer, conjuror, magician, medicine man, powwow, pow-wow, sorcerer, Warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pemikat (allure, captivator). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mago (magician, magicians, sorcerer, whiz kid, wizard). (various references)

   

Manx

  

oalyssagh (enchanting, mystic, well-informed), druaiaghtagh (entrancing, ravishing). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

tovenar (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enchanteray

   

Portuguese

  

seduzir (allure, attract, bait, beguile, betray, debauch, decoy, drain-ditch, drive, entice, enticement, enticing, gullet, inveigle, lure, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp, wile). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vrãjitor (charmer, conjuror, magician, magus, necromancer, powwow, sorcerer, wizard). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чародей (fascinator, magician, necromancer, sorcerer, wizard). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čarobnjak (mage, magician, sorcerer, sprite, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

encantador (charming, delightful, disarming, enchanting, enchantingly, entrancing, glamorous, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magician, ravishing, taking, winning). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

mchawi (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trollkarl (conjurer, conjuror, fascinator, illusionist, magician, sorcerer, viz, Warlock, wizard), tjusare (charmer), charmör (charmer, smoothie). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

síhírbaz (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard), büyücü (charmer, magician, necromancer, necromantic, sorcerer, Warlock, wise man, witch, wizard). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

чарівник (charmer, magician, necromancer, sorcerer, Warlock, wizard), чаклун (charmer, conjurer, conjuror, hoodoo, magician, magus, necromancer, voodoo, weird), фокусник (conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người l m vui thích. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

swynwr (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard), hudol (enchanting), dewin (augur, diviner, mage, magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

waay (magician, sorcerer, warlock, wizard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Enchanter

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

incantator, incantatores, incantatori, incantatoribus, incantatorum, magus, malefici, maleficis, maleficos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enchanter

Derivations

Words beginning with "enchanter": enchanters. (additional references)

Words ending with "enchanter": disenchanter. (additional references)

Words containing "enchanter": disenchanters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enchanter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enchanta, enchante, incanter, mnchener. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Enchanter"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "enchanter" (pronounced enkha"nter)
4-a" n t erbanter, canter, Cantor, grantor, planter.
3-n t erblunter, carpenter, center, centre, counter, covenanter, discounter, dissenter, encounter, enter, epicenter, experimenter, fainter, headhunter, Hunter, inventor, mentor, Midwinter, Minter, multicenter, overwinter, painter, pointer, presenter, printer, punter, reenter, renter, saunter, splinter, sprinter, Stentor, Supercenter, tormentor, Venter, winter.

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

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Anagrams: Enchanter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-n-n-r-t"

-1 letter: enhancer, entrance, entrench.

-2 letters: canteen, centare, centner, chanter, cheater, crenate, earthen, enchant, enhance, hearten, hectare, recheat, reenact, reteach, teacher, tranche.

-3 letters: achene, aether, anther, canner, canter, careen, carnet, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, create, ecarte, entera, etcher, ethane, heater, hereat, neaten, neater, nectar, nether, rachet, recane, recant, recent, reheat, rennet, tanner, tanrec, tenace, tenner, tenrec, thecae, thenar, thence, trance, trench.

-4 letters: anent, antre, arete, caner, caret, carte, cater, chant, chare, chart, cheat, cheer, chert, crane, crate, earth, eaten, eater, enact, enate, enter, erect, ether, hance, hater, heart, hence, henna, nacre, nance, natch, neath, rance, ranch, ranee, ratch, rathe, reach, react, recta, rente, retch, tache, teach, tench, terce, terne, thane, theca, there, three, trace, treen.

-5 letters: ache, acne, acre, ante, arch, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, cere, cete, char, chat, each, earn, eath, eche, erne, etch, etna, haen, haet, hant, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, hent, here, hern, narc, near, neat, nene, race, rant, rate, rath, rent, rete, rhea, tace, tach, tahr, tare, tarn, tear, teen, tern, thae, than, thee, then, tree.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-n-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: anthracene, enchanters.

 

+2 letters: anthracenes, archenteron, enchantress, inheritance, interchange, merchantmen, trencherman.

 

+3 letters: archenterons, disenchanter, encroachment, inheritances, interchained, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interchannel, neurasthenic, trenchancies.

 

+4 letters: counterchange, disenchanters, enchantresses, encroachments, interchangers, neurasthenics.

 

+5 letters: benzanthracene, counterchanged, counterchanges, disinheritance, nontheoretical, nontherapeutic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Enchanter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 63 68 61 6E 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.    -.-.    ....    .-    -.    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#99 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0063 0068 0061 006E 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

398069746780867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Derived from
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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