charm

charm1 [ tʃarm ] noun **

1. ) uncount a personal quality that attracts people to you and makes them like you:

Even journalists succumbed to Roosevelt's easy charm.

great/considerable/immense charm: She is a woman of great personal charm.

turn on the charm (=use it to influence someone or achieve something): They were reluctant to let us in until Sue turned on the charm.

a ) charms plural pleasant or attractive qualities or features:

Visitors are delighted by the village's more rustic charms.

The place held no charms for me it was bare and isolated.

b ) uncount the quality of being pleasant or attractive:

The building has been modernized but retains its traditional charm.

a classic children's tale that has lost none of its charm

2. ) count something that people believe brings them luck:

a good-luck charm

a ) a small object worn on a piece of jewelry:

a gold charm

a charm bracelet

3. ) count something believed to have magic power, especially a magic phrase

a ) work like a charm to be very effective

charm

charm 2 [ tʃarm ] verb transitive *

1. ) to give someone pleasure or enjoyment:

The children clearly charmed the audience with their enthusiastic singing.

She was charmed by Henry's thoughtfulness.

2. ) to deliberately make someone like you so that they do what you want them to do:

He was able to charm my mother into helping him financially.

3. ) to use magic to influence or control someone or something