Witch

Quick meaning: Witch is a noun meaning A person who follows Wicca or similar New Age pagan beliefs.

Meaning

A person who follows Wicca or similar New Age pagan beliefs.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, chiefly derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
2. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
3. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
4. (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
5. A storm petrel.
6. Any of a number of flatfish of species:
7. A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events, particularly one with malicious motives.

Example Sentences

I hate that old witch.

He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.

Several of the Leechbook recipes would have done credit to the witches in Macbeth.

It was easy to understand that they were witches, who had turned themselves into ravens.

Word Forms

• witches
• witching
• witched

Synonyms for witch

Depending on context, synonyms include magician, wizardess, sorceress, wizard, sorcerer, warlock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hag, enchantress, crone, beldame, glamour, bewitch.

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