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A person with unusual powers of foresight
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illusionist
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He has worked full time as a magician and illusionist since 1998, entertaining primarily at corporate retreats and product launches.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illusionist \Il*lu"sion*ist\, n. One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer. A magician or conjurer who produces illusions by sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: visionary , seer ] someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician , prestidigitator , conjurer , conjuror ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"conjurer, magic act performer," 1840, from illusion + -ist . Earlier "one suffering from illusions" (1812).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who works with illusion or sleight of hand. 2 One who deceives by magical or mystical means.
Usage examples of illusionist.
An illusionists act should tell a story, all the tricks linked together, one leading to the next with one or more of the earlier tricks returning at the end to give the audience that delightful one-two punch that left them, she hoped, breathless.
Touring these fabulously beautiful gardens, plus the chance to view the artistic delights of the illusionists, seemed a dream come true to the Field Magus.
Fabeque Province, a few isolated corners of VoGrance and the hills of the Aussadie, dominated by the formidable illusionists of Bozhenille Commune.
The illusionist, the lie artist, the storyboarder they have a helplessness.
The illusionist was bedeviling Chainer's brethren with the image of a small sea monster and a swarm of stinging faeries.
Vlad grinned at his audience and shrugged—in his manner, he reminded Beheim of the buffoonish, third-rate illusionists who had sometimes appeared during intermissions at the Opéra Comique.
After the bomb scare earlier in the day, it was perfectly normal for an emergency vehicle to be parked hereperfectly natural, an illusionist would note.
After the bomb scare earlier in the day, it was perfectly normal for an emergency vehicle to be parked here-perfectly natural, an illusionist would note.
One by one the gonophs, thieves, finewirers, whores, illusionists, backsliders and second-storey men awoke and breakfasted.
There were all those different kinds of magicians, for one thing—wizards and warlocks and witches, theurgists and demonologists and sorcerers, illusionists and herbalists and scientists, and all the others.
No ordinary slum, this, although the huts built out of old packing cases and pieces of corrugated tin and shreds of jute sacking which stood higgledy‑piggledy in the shadow of the mosque looked no different from any other shanty‑town… because this was the ghetto of the magicians, yes, the very same place which had once spawned a Hummingbird whom knives had pierced and pie‑dogs had failed to save… the conjurers' slum, to which the greatest fakirs and prestidigitators and illusionists in the land continually flocked, to seek their fortune in the capital city.