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sorcerer
[ sawr-ser-er ]
sorcerer
/ ˈsɔːsərə; ˈsɔːsərɪs /
noun
- a person who seeks to control and use magic powers; a wizard or magician
Other Words From
- under·sorcer·er noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sorcerer1
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Example Sentences
As ruler of the dream world, he holds hidden power over all mankind – until a human sorcerer manages to trap him and imprison him on Earth for more than 100 years.
In a passing exchange, Doctor Strange tells Peter Parker that Wong is now Sorcerer Supreme after Strange was snapped out of existence for five years.
Or, worse still, this is a different sorcerer masquerading as Doctor Strange.
On a large scale, the Internet reminds me a bit of the Mirror of Erised, from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Russo said the hardest character to write was the main antagonist of the movie and the series, the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung.
America was like a “sorcerer,” he said, holding other nations under its powerful spell to keep them from supporting the rebels.
The evil sorcerer Gargamel—and his cat Azrael—always hover nearby, in the hopes of kidnapping them.
Peter MacNichol stars as Galen, an impressively earnest, blotchy, and incompetent sorcerer's apprentice.
Early in the year, Hagrid brings a package to Hogwarts, the Sorcerer's Stone, which grants immortality.
She describes him as a dangerous sectarian, a veritable sorcerer, and the evil genius of one of her own relatives.
He positively passed among them for a sorcerer; he had even been given the title of an 'insectivist.'
It was the contrivance of a white-faced thing, a sorcerer, that dwelt in that country in the Wood of Eld.
Wonderful stories are told by the later chroniclers of a certain Eudo de Stella, who had acquired great notoriety as a sorcerer.
Then they put the two halves of the Sorcerer into it and covered him up.
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What does sorcerer mean?
A sorcerer is a person who can perform sorcery—witchcraft or magic.
The word sorcerer can be used for any gender, but it typically refers to a man. The word sorceress refers to a woman who performs sorcery.
The word sorcery often (though not always) refers to so-called black magic—magic used for evil purposes. That’s why sorcerer and sorceress are often used to refer to evil characters in works of fiction, especially in the fantasy genre.
In contrast, similar words like wizard and magician usually imply that such figures use their powers for good. If not, you’d usually call them an evil wizard or evil magician.
Apart from whether or not they use their supernatural powers for good or evil, the words sorcerer and sorceress often imply that such a person is very powerful due to having great skill and command of such powers.
For this reason, the word sorcerer is sometimes used in a figurative way to refer to a person who is very skilled at something, as if they have magical abilities, as in Chris is a sorcerer at coding. The word sorcery can be used to refer to such skill. The words wizard and wizardry are used (even more commonly) in the same ways.
Example: The sorcerer has cast a powerful spell to enchant this land.
Where does sorcerer come from?
The first records of the word sorcerer come from the 1520s. An earlier (and now no longer used) form of the word is sorcer. The word sorceress is recorded earlier than both of these, in the second half of the 1300s. All three words ultimately come from the Latin sortiārius, meaning “person who casts lots” (referring to a person who tells fortunes).
Fictionally speaking, a sorcerer is a magician (the kind who wields supernatural powers, not the kind who does card tricks). Sorcerers are often villains in the stories where they appear, but this is not always the case. Sorcerer only sometimes implies evil, but it always implies great magical power and skill. The figurative use of the word usually doesn’t imply evil. When you call a chef a sorcerer, it’s a compliment meaning that they use their skill to make magic in the kitchen—not that they use their powers for evil.
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How is sorcerer used in real life?
Sorcerers most commonly appear (and disappear) in the context of fantasy.
i love the trope where people think of emrys as an untouchable being who can do no wrong bc he’s this all powerful sorcerer but then come to realise merlin is just a human who eats too fast and trips over air and gets the flu and makes mistakes just like a normal person does
— zhu (@doseofmerlin) July 5, 2020
What did we just watch? Jae Crowder is some kind of sorcerer. pic.twitter.com/hXEYndfLTk
— Jake Lee (@jacobrexlee) January 24, 2019
The virus succeeded where previous efforts to limit women’s ascendancy in the workplace failed: in a scenario so perfect it’s almost as if a misogynistic sorcerer conjured it in a dungeon, a global pandemic may be the impetus for booting working moms from the workplace altogether https://t.co/GDTj3XkqaE
— Jacklyn Wille (@JacklynWille) July 8, 2020
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True or False?
Sorcerers are always evil.
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