charm – English noun declension

English noun forms of charm

Noun: charm
Singularcharm
Pluralcharms

Sample Sentences

  • a charm against evil
  • It works like a charm.
  • The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 223:]
  • He had great personal charm.
  • She tried to win him over with her charms.
  • […]the charm of Beauties powerful glance. [1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt,
  • To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. [1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:]
  • Charms ſtrike the ſight, but merit wins the ſoul. [1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto V, page 160:]
  • Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion. [1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 15:]
  • She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
  • It's a charm of hummingbirds, a rare sight. [2020, Janine Urbaniak Reid, The Opposite of Certainty: Fear, Faith, and Life in Between, Thomas Nelson, page 263:]
  • Nearby, a charm of nightingales flooded the daylit branches of a wood. [2014, Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, Open Road Media:]
  • Therefore, do not fear, but trust in your Father's unfailing care, for you are more precious than a charm of sparrows. [2015, Wayne L. Ney, The Story of the Messiah: A Historical Account of the Life of Jesus Christ, WestBow Press, page 168:]
  • There is the silvertoned twitter of a "charm" of Goldfinches at the thistle-heads, and, above all, there is the cheerful uproar of the Rooks once more. [1924, John Henry Salter, Bird Life Throughout the Year, Swarthmore Press, page 182:]
  • 24th. - Two Green Sandpipers, fifty Mute Swans, and five Herons at Hedgecourt Pond; a small "charm" of Goldfinches near Lingfield (C. H. B.). [1906, L. B. Mouritz, “Ornithological Observations in Surrey”, in Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Newman West, page 102:]
  • When it was desired to attract a 'charm' of goldfinches or other birds, the string was pulled, and the braced bird was thus thrown up into the air, and on the flock settling the nets were pulled over, the captured birds transferred to a cage, in the top of which was a hole large enough to admit of a hand being inserted, the leg of a stocking being nailed round the hole and tied in a knot to prevent the birds escaping. [1896, Arthur Thomas Fisher, Outdoor Life in England, R. Bentley & Son, page 99:]
  • They looked up to see, sitting a tight knot attempting to conceal themselves on a branch thick with leaves and blossoms, the charm of purple finches. [2017, Peggy A. Wheeler, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus, Dragon Moon Press:]
  • the "charm" of yellow goldfinches flying against the unearthly blue of the sky! [1929 August, Esther Forbes, “Ann Douglas Sedgwick and Her Novels”, in The Bookman, volume 69, Dodd Mead and Company, page 574:]
  • I observed a charm of chaffinches get up at my approach and they seemed to be all females [1961 July 26, The Manchester Guardian Weekly, volume 61, page 15:]
  • In trying to understand the long life of the psi particle, physicists postulated the notion of “charm.” Charm, they say, prevents the “easy” decay of particles and thus prolongs their lifetimes. U particles, Dr. Pert said, may carry the property of charm. [1975 July 31, Sandra Blakeslee, “Another Particle Believed Discovered”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness. [2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173:]
  • Undoubtedly one of the most important pieces to navigating Windows 8, charms are actually not visible until a command to show them is given. [2012, J. Peter Bruzzese, Using Windows 8:]

Etymology

From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”). Displaced native Old English lybb (“drug, poison, charm”). See: Middle English Nouns 'charme', Latin Nouns 'carmen'.

Verbs referencing "charm"

Danish Nouns charm, Finnish Nouns charmi, Italian Nouns charmonio, German Nouns Charm.