"wizardry" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wizardries [plural]
Etymology: wizard + -ry Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wizard|ry}} wizard + -ry Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wizardry (countable and uncountable, plural wizardries)
  1. The art of a wizard; sorcery. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Occult Translations (art of a wizard; sorcery): toorkuns (Afrikaans), toordery (Afrikaans), سحر (siḥr) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), čarodějnictví (Czech), kouzelnictví [neuter] (Czech), sorĉado (Esperanto), noitataito (Finnish), taikuus (Finnish), Zauberei [feminine] (German), varázslás (Hungarian), noijitus (Ingrian), noijitos (Ingrian), 魔法 (mahō) (Japanese), 魔術 (majutsu) (Japanese), 呪術 (jujutsu) (english: black magic) (Japanese), fascinatio [feminine] (Latin), fascinum [neuter] (Latin), burvestība [feminine] (Latvian), trylldom [masculine] (Norwegian), czarnoksięstwo [neuter] (Polish), feitiçaria [feminine] (Portuguese), bruxaria [feminine] (Portuguese), magia [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-wizardry-en-noun-EX5gzYt7 Disambiguation of Occult: 70 9 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 15 19 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 68 10 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 63 12 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ry: 54 15 31 Disambiguation of 'art of a wizard; sorcery': 97 1 2
  2. Something, such as an advanced technology, that gives the appearance of magic. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (something that gives the appearance of magic): taikuus (Finnish), fascinatio (Latin), fascinum [neuter] (Latin), burvestība [feminine] (Latvian), magia [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-wizardry-en-noun-XMNsFYz5 Disambiguation of 'something that gives the appearance of magic': 6 90 4
  3. Great ability in some specified field. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (great ability): taituruus (Finnish), taikuus (Finnish), noituus (Finnish), boszorkányság (Hungarian), 有能 (yūnō) (Japanese), 才能 (sainō) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-wizardry-en-noun-WHR0T7JA Disambiguation of 'great ability': 2 0 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hexcraft, sorcery, spellcasting, spellcraft, thaumaturgy, warlockry, witchcraft, wizardcraft

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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "great ability",
      "word": "boszorkányság"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yūnō",
      "sense": "great ability",
      "word": "有能"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sainō",
      "sense": "great ability",
      "word": "才能"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wizardry"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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