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English

Etymology

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise +? -ard.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: w?z??d, IPA^(key): /?w?z.?d/
• (US) enPR: w?z??rd, IPA^(key): /w?z.?d/
• Hyphenation: wi?zard

Noun

wizard (plural wizards)

1. Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.

   Synonyms: conjurer, mage, magician, magic user, mystic, sorcerer, warlock, witch

2. One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.

   Synonyms: expert, genius, prodigy

3. (computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.

   Synonym: assistant

4. (Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.
5. (obsolete) A wise man; a sage.
6. (Internet slang, incel slang) An adult virgin over the age of 30.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:magician
• see also Thesaurus:skilled person

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Adjective

wizard (not comparable)

1. (slang, dated, Britain) Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).

Verb

wizard (third-person singular simple present wizards, present participle wizarding, simple past and past participle wizarded)

1. (intransitive) To practice wizardry.
2. (transitive) To conjure.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sug? (compare West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge), from Proto-Indo-European *suh?kéh? (compare Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit ???? (s?kará, “swine, boar”)), from *suH- ‘pig’ (compare German Sau, Latin s?s, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ?? (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan ????????? (h?, “boar”). See also swine.

Alternative forms

• (dial.): zew, soo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: sough

Noun

sow (plural sows or swine)

1. A female pig.
2. A female bear, she-bear.
3. A female guinea pig.
4. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
5. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160:

     In England, it was generally termed a 'sow', if the weight was above 10 cwts., if below, it was termed a 'pig' from which the present term 'pig iron' is derived.

6. (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
7. A sowbug.
8. (military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Craig to this entry?)

Usage notes

The plural form swine is now obsolete in this sense.

Synonyms

• (mass of metal solidified in a mold): ingot
• (contemptible woman): bitch, cow

Derived terms

• make a silk purse of a sow's ear

Translations

See also

• boar
• hog
• pig

Etymology 2

From Middle English sowen, from Old English s?wan, from Proto-Germanic *s?an?, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?-. Compare Dutch zaaien, German säen, Danish så, Norwegian Bokmål så.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /so?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: seau, sew, so, soe, soh

Verb

sow (third-person singular simple present sows, present participle sowing, simple past sowed, past participle sown or sowed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

   When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.

   As you sow, so shall you reap.

2. (figuratively) To spread abroad; to propagate.

   • And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
3. (figuratively) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, […] and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.

Synonyms

• plant, scatter

Derived terms

• besow
• intersow
• oversow
• reap what one sows
• sower
• sown
• sow one's wild oats
• sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Translations

Anagrams

• OSW, OWS, W.O.s, WOs, wos

Middle English

Noun

sow

1. Alternative form of sowe