a power of pleasing or attracting, as through personality or beauty: charm of manner; the charm of a mountain lake.
a trait or feature imparting this power.
charms,attractiveness.
a trinket to be worn on a bracelet, necklace, etc.
something worn or carried on one's person for its supposed magical effect; amulet.
any action supposed to have magical power.
the chanting or recitation of a magic verse or formula.
a verse or formula credited with magical power.
Physics. a quantum number assigned the value +1 for one kind of quark, −1 for its antiquark, and 0 for all other quarks. Symbol: CCompare charmed quark.
verb (used with object)
to delight or please greatly by beauty, attractiveness, etc.; enchant: She charmed us with her grace.
to act upon (someone or something) with or as with a compelling or magical force: to charm a bird from a tree.
to endow with or protect by supernatural powers.
to gain or influence through personal charm: He charmed a raise out of his boss.
verb (used without object)
to be fascinating or pleasing.
to use charms.
to act as a charm.
Origin of charm
1
1250–1300; Middle English charme, from Old French, from Latin carminem, accusative of carmen “song, magical formula,” from unattested canmen (by dissimilation), equivalent to can(ere) “to sing” + -men noun suffix
More often than not, I’ll head out in the middle of the day when it’s 94 degrees and the city’s famous olfactory charms are at their most ripe.
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In are local haunts that are long on charm but probably have no marketing budget or Instagram accounts.
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Retro parks were designed to have the charm of an early 20th-century, baseball-only ballpark, with features like asymmetrical dimensions that mimicked the designs of older parks that had been constrained by building within city blocks.
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Since charm quarks and their anticharm counterparts are among the heaviest types of quarks, it is also the first tetraquark to include more than two heavy quarks.
This is the first known particle with four of the same kind of quark|Maria Temming|July 7, 2020|Science News
There is charm, oodles of it, but also a steeliness about Gilkes.
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In the end, Stephen did not kill young William, which the knight would claim was due to his charm.
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The charm continues when he waxes on—and on—about the immeasurable respect he has for Cumberbatch, his friend of over 15 years.
From ‘The Good Wife’ to ‘The Imitation Game’: Matthew Goode Wages His Charm Offensive|Kevin Fallon|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The system faintly evokes the charm of the Hogwarts houses—without a Sorting Hat, that is.
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In the last several months Pyongyang has launched a charm offensive directed at Moscow, Tokyo, and Seoul.
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As charm rings, too, must be reckoned those which enclosed small relics.
Jewellery|H. Clifford Smith,
There are many men amongst us who, in Scripture phrase, refuse to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Ancient Faiths And Modern|Thomas Inman
And as she carried the attempt too far, I got angry, and heating with a charm the prongs of my trident, I marked her on the loins.
The Kath Sarit Sgara|Somadeva Bhatta
I have enjoyed the charm of Mendoza, the healthiest of all the towns in the Republic.
The Amazing Argentine|John Foster Fraser
Sometimes a heavily-laden cart would go by drawn by a long string of oxen; but they were picturesque and added to the charm.
The Chief Legatee|Anna Katharine Green
British Dictionary definitions for charm (1 of 2)
charm1
/ (tʃɑːm) /
noun
the quality of pleasing, fascinating, or attracting people
a pleasing or attractive feature
a small object worn or kept for supposed magical powers of protection; amulet; talisman
a trinket worn on a bracelet
a magic spell; enchantment
a formula or action used in casting such a spell
physicsan internal quantum number of certain elementary particles, used to explain some scattering experiments
like a charmperfectly; successfully
verb
to attract or fascinate; delight greatly
to cast a magic spell on
to protect, influence, or heal, supposedly by magic
(tr)to influence or obtain by personal charmhe charmed them into believing him
Word Origin for charm
C13: from Old French charme, from Latin carmen song, incantation, from canere to sing
British Dictionary definitions for charm (2 of 2)
charm2
/ (tʃɑːm) /
noun
Southwest Englishdialecta loud noise, as of a number of people chattering or of birds singing
One of the flavors of quarks, contributing to the charm number-a quantum number-for hadrons.
A charmed particle is a particle that contains at least one charmed quark or charmed antiquark. The charmed quark was hypothesized to account for the longevity of the J/psi particle and to explain differences in the behavior of leptons and hadrons. See more at flavor.