CHARM


Meaning of CHARM in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.

‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, the 1937 Disney classic, has lost none of its original ~...

The house had its ~s, not the least of which was the furniture that came with it.

N-VAR

2.

Someone who has ~ behaves in a friendly, pleasant way that makes people like them.

He was a man of great ~ and distinction.

N-UNCOUNT

3.

If you ~ someone, you please them, especially by using your ~.

He even ~ed Mrs Prichard, carrying her shopping and flirting with her, though she’s 83...

VERB: V n

4.

A ~ is a small ornament that is fixed to a bracelet or necklace.

N-COUNT

5.

A ~ is an act, saying, or object that is believed to have magic powers.

...a good luck ~.

N-COUNT

6.

If you say that something worked like a ~, you mean that it was very effective or successful.

Economically, the policy worked like a ~.

PHRASE: V inflects

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