Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A magician or sorcerer.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A magician; an enchanter; a person expert in the black art.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Archaic A magician.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun fantasy A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Middle English mages, magicians, variant of magi; see magus.]

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From Latin magus.

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  • Oddly enough, WordNet defines magus but not mage.

    December 21, 2008