n.
- the power or quality of delighting, attracting, or fascinating others.
▸an attractive characteristic or feature.
- a small ornament worn on a necklace or bracelet.
- an object, act, or saying believed to have magic power.
- Physics one of six flavours of quark.
v.
- delight greatly.
▸use one's charm in order to influence (someone).
- control or achieve by or as if by magic.
Derivative
- charmer n.
- charmless adj.
- charmlessly adv.
- charmlessness n.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. charme (n.), charmer (v.), from L. carmen ‘song, verse, incantation’.