Definitions for charms

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charms charm

Spelling: [chahrm]

IPA: /tʃɑrm/

Charms is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in charms (achmrs).

Definitions for charms

noun

1. a power of pleasing or attracting, as through personality or beauty:
2. a trait or feature imparting this power.
3. charms, attractiveness.
4. a trinket to be worn on a bracelet, necklace, etc.
5. something worn or carried on one's person for its supposed magical effect; amulet.
6. any action supposed to have magical power.
7. the chanting or recitation of a magic verse or formula.
8. a verse or formula credited with magical power.
9. Physics. a quantum number assigned the value +1 for one kind of quark, −1 for its antiquark, and 0 for all other quarks. Symbol: C. Compare charmed quark.
10. blended singing of birds, children, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to delight or please greatly by beauty, attractiveness, etc.; enchant:
2. to act upon (someone or something) with or as with a compelling or magical force:
3. to endow with or protect by supernatural powers.
4. to gain or influence through personal charm:

verb (used without object)

1. to be fascinating or pleasing.
2. to use charms.
3. to act as a charm.

Origin of charms

1250-1300; Middle English charme Old French Latin carminem, accusative of carmen song, magical formula *canmen (by dissimilation), equivalent to can(ere) to sing + -men noun suffix

Examples for charms

The charm continues when he waxes on—and on—about the immeasurable respect he has for Cumberbatch, his friend of over 15 years.

No other form of verse has, therefore, in so great a degree, the charm of freshness.

The system faintly evokes the charm of the Hogwarts houses—without a Sorting Hat, that is.

I knew—I begin to understand him so well—just how he felt the charm of everything.

The charm of the place does not lie so much in detail as in broad effects.

In the end, Stephen did not kill young William, which the knight would claim was due to his charm.

In the last several months Pyongyang has launched a charm offensive directed at Moscow, Tokyo, and Seoul.

The charm of it all, the deathless charm and the astounding veracity!

There is charm, oodles of it, but also a steeliness about Gilkes.

The charm that held us to this rough place was the abundance of game.