charm

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    • (Can we date this quote by Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the charm of beauty's powerful glance
  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 quantity of charm quarks & 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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Verb

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      No witchcraft charm thee!
    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.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I, in my own woe charmed, / Could not find death.
    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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Music the fiercest grief can charm.
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Etymology 2

Variant of chirm, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English chirme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ċierm (“cry, alarm”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *karmiz.

Noun

charm (plural charms)

  1. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV:
      Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest Birds
    • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      free liberty to chant our charms at will
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:
      The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.
  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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Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English charm.

Noun

charm c (singular definite charmen, plural indefinite charms)

  1. charm
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”).

Verb

charm

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of charme

Swedish

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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 — —

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