charm

See also: Charm

English

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chäm, IPA(key): /tʃɑːm/
  • (General American) enPR: chärm, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑɹm/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Noun

charm (countable and uncountable, plural charms)

  1. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
    Synonyms: incantation, spell, talisman
    a charm against evil
    It works like a charm.
  2. (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
    Synonyms: appeal, attraction, charisma
    Antonyms: boredom, dryness
    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.
    Synonyms: amulet, dangle, ornament
    She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
  4. (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
    Coordinate term: strangeness
    • 1975 July 31, Sandra Blakeslee, “Another Particle Believed Discovered”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      In trying to understand the long life of the psi particle, physicists postulated the notion of “charm.” Charm, they say, prevents the “easy” decay of particles and thus prolongs their lifetimes. U particles, Dr. Pert said, may carry the property of charm.
    • 2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173:
      Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.
  5. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
    Synonyms: delta decay, DdeltaDtime
    Hypernym: Greeks
  6. (graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
    • 2012, J. Peter Bruzzese, Using Windows 8:
      Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces to navigating Windows 8, charms are actually not visible until a command to show them is given.
Translations
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Verb

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

  1. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
    Synonyms: delight, enchant, entrance
    He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor.
  2. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
    Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspell
    After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed.
  3. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
    She led a charmed life.
  4. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Ægloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC, folio 42, recto:
      But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme, / For thy, content vs in thys humble ſhade: / Where no ſuch troublous tydes han vs aſſayde, / Here we our ſlender pipes may ſafely charme.
  5. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
    • 1687 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto VII, page 378:
      Music the fierceſt griefs can charm, / And fate's ſevereſt rage diſarm: […]
Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Noun

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.

Further reading

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

From English charming.

Pronunciation

Adjective

charm

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) charming

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English charm.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtɕɑːm]

Noun

charm c (singular definite charmen, plural indefinite charms)

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

Etymology 2

See charme (“to charm”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɕɑˀm]

Verb

charm

  1. imperative of charme

Palauan

Etymology

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Noun

charm

  1. animal

References
  • charm in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • charm in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • charm in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 35.

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɧarm/

Noun

charm c

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

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

References
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