magician

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ma=gi=cian
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

magician, n. [F. magicien. See Magic, n.].

•  One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.  [1913 Webster]
•  An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

magician, n.
1 a person skilled in or practising magic.
2 a conjuror.
3 a person with exceptional skill.

Etymology

ME f. OF magicien f. LL magica (as MAGIC)

THESAURUS

magician

Circe, Merlin, Prospero, ace, airiness, appearance, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, charmer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, conjuror, coryphee, crackerjack, dancer, dancing girl, delusiveness, diabolist, diviner, ecdysiast, enchanter, enchantress, entertainer, escamoteur, exorciser, exorcist, exotic dancer, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, female impersonator, first-rater, fortune-teller, geisha, geisha girl, genius, good hand, great, guisard, guiser, hoofer, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, impersonator, juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magus, mahatma, man of genius, marvel, master, master hand, mastermind, medicine man, medium, miracle-worker, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, necromancer, past master, peeler, performer, practiced hand, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, prodigy, prophet, public entertainer, sage, satanist, seeming, seer, semblance, shaman, show, show girl, simulacrum, singer, skilled hand, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand performer, soothsayer, sorcerer, sorceress, sorcery, specious appearance, star, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, superstar, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, topnotcher, tricker, trickster, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, virtuoso, voodoo, voodooist, warlock, whiz, witch, wizard

ROGET THESAURUS

magician

Sorcerer

N sorcerer, magician, thaumaturgist, theurgist, conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch, hoodoo, voodoo, fairy, lamia, hag, warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage, cunning man, medicine man, Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica, medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller, mesmerist, deus ex machina, soothsayer, Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian, Circe, siren, weird sisters.