different between charmer vs charter

English

Etymology

From Middle English charmer, charmere, equivalent to charm +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t???m?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)

Noun

charmer (plural charmers)

1. A charming person; one who charms or seduces; a smoothie.
2. An enchanter or magician.

Related terms

• charm
• charming
• snake charmer

Translations

Anagrams

• marcher

Danish

Noun

charmer c

1. indefinite plural of charme

Verb

charmer

1. present of charme
2. imperative of charmere

French

Etymology

From charme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.me/

Verb

charmer

1. to charm (with magic)
2. to charm

Conjugation

Related terms

• charmant
• charme
• charmeresse
• charmeur
• charmeuse

Descendants

• ? Italian: ciurmare

Further reading

• “charmer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• marcher

Middle English

Alternative forms

• charmere, charmor, charmar, chermar

Etymology

From Old French charmier; equivalent to charmen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?arm?r/

Noun

charmer (plural charmeres)

1. A mage or spellcaster; an individual who uses magic.
2. (rare) One who intrigues or interests others.

Descendants

• English: charmer
• Scots: chairmer

References

• “charmere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.

Old French

Verb

charmer

1. to charm; to enchant (put under a magic spell)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rms, *-rmt are modified to rs, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Sicilian: ciarmari

English

Alternative forms

• chartre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: char?ter

Noun

charter (plural charters)

1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5. A deed (legal contract).
6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
7. (Britain, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
   • 2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:

     In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it.

   • 2005 November 30, Stephen Foley "The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud" The Independent, London

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ?????? (?art?r)
• ? Dutch: charter
• ? Estonian: tšarter
• ? French: charter
• ? Italian: charter
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Polish: czarter
• ? Russian: ?????? (?arter)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: ?arter

• ? Spanish: charter, chárter
• ? Swedish: charter
• ? Turkish: charter
• ? Uzbek: charter

Translations

Adjective

charter (not comparable)

1. Leased or hired.

Translations

Verb

charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)

1. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3. (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Translations

See also

• charter school

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.t??/

Noun

charter m (plural charters)

1. a charter flight
2. a charter plane
3. a charter pilot

Further reading

• “charter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• châtrer

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Noun

charter m (invariable)

1. Charter plane or flight

Adjective

charter (invariable)

1. (relational) charter

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??a?te?/, [?t??a?.t?e?]

Noun

charter m (plural charteres)

1. a shuttlebus