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# magician

«magician» in Mova's school dictionary: **a performer who does magic tricks that seem impossible…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a magician, magicians)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A magician is a performer who does magic tricks that seem impossible, like making things disappear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#m1)

2) In stories, a magician is a person with real magic powers, like a wizard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories magicians cast spells; in real life stage magicians use secret skills, fast hands and distraction — not real magic. Lessons on truth and tricks explain illusions. Phrases: «a party magician», «a magician's trick», «the magician's assistant».

### examples

- The magician pulled a rabbit out of a hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x1)
- A magician came to my birthday party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x2)
- The magician made the coin disappear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x3)
- A good magician never tells how the trick is done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x4)
- In the story, the magician turned the prince into a frog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x5)
- The magician's hands moved too fast to see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x6)
- I want to be a magician when I grow up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x7)
- The magician cried out in a great hurry: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/#x8)

### note

Countable. Pronounced muh-JISH-un. Stage magic is an illusion — a trick on your eyes and attention; it is honest fun because everyone knows it is a trick.

### In the corpora

- [Some animals escape not with spikes or poison but with a trick, like a magician who makes you look the wrong way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches/0/)
- [The Magician walks round the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/3/)
- [«Now I know where Pau Amma went,» says the Magician.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/2/)
- [But when the Magician asks for a Magic, Pau Amma can only stir up the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/8/)
- [The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma might grow big and proud again and forget his promise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «magician» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magician/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.