SPELLBINDER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An orator who can hold his listeners spellbound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("spellbinder" is a kind of...):

orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)

Derivation:

spellbind (put into a trance)

spellbind (attract strongly, as if with a magnet)

spellbind (to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe)

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