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charm

EnglishEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).

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NounEdit

charm (countable and uncountable, plural charms)

  1. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
    a charm against evil
    It works like a charm.
  2. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
    He had great personal charm.
    She tried to win him over with her charms.
  3. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
    She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
  4. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
  5. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
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  • (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
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VerbEdit

charm (third-person singular simple present charms, present participle charming, simple past and past participle charmed)

  2. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
      They, on their mirth and dance / Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
      The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
    He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor.
  3. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
    After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed.
  4. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
    She led a charmed life.
  5. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
  6. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
    • 1708, Alexander Pope, Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day:
      Music the fiercest grief can charm.
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Etymology 2Edit

Variant of chirm, from Middle English chirme, from Old English ċierm (“cry, alarm”), from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.

NounEdit

charm (plural charms)

  1. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
  2. A flock, group (especially of finches).
    • 2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart:
      A charm of finches flew overhead, singing into the vivid afternoon sky.

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DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English charm.

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NounEdit

charm c (singular definite charmen, plural indefinite charms)

  1. charm (jewelry)
InflectionEdit
Declension of charm
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative charm charmen charms charmene
genitive charms charmens charms' charmenes

Etymology 2Edit

See charme (“to charm”).

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VerbEdit

charm

  1. imperative of charme

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NounEdit

charm c

  1. charm; the ability to persuade, delight, or arouse admiration

DeclensionEdit

Declension of charm 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative charm charmen — —
Genitive charms charmens — —

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