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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: visionary, illusionist, seer]
2: someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience [syn: magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1850 a person who produces illusory effects: as a. one (as an artist) whose work is marked by illusionism b. a sleight-of-hand performer or a magician • illusionistic adjective • illusionistically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person who produces illusions; a conjuror. Derivatives: illusionism n. illusionistic adj.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Illusionist Il*lu"sion*ist, n. One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(illusionists) An illusionist is a performer who makes it seem that strange or impossible things are happening, for example that a person has disappeared or been cut in half. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Merlin, Prospero, airiness, appearance, conjurer, delusiveness, escamoteur, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, idealization, illusionism, illusiveness, immateriality, juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, magus, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand performer, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, tricker, trickster, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality