Meaning & use
wizard
In folklore and fantasy, a man believed to have magical powers; more informally, a person with exceptional skill at something.
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In the story, the old wizard cast a spell to protect the village from the storm.
Her grandfather was a real wizard with anything mechanical, fixing engines nobody else could.
A note on using this word
The informal sense of 'wizard' meaning an expert, as in 'a computer wizard', is extremely common in everyday English, well beyond its fantasy origins.
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