CHARM


Meaning of CHARM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃɑ:(r)m ]

( charms, charming, charmed)

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 charm...

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

N-VAR

2.

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

He was a man of great charm and distinction.

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3.

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

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

VERB : V n

4.

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

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5.

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

...a good luck charm.

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6.

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

Economically, the policy worked like a charm.

PHRASE : V inflects

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