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SPELLBINDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An orator who can hold his listeners spellbound
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spellbinder" is a kind of...):
orator; public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker (a person who delivers a speech or oration)
Derivation:
spellbind (put into a trance)
spellbind (attract strongly, as if with a magnet)
spellbind (to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe)