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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
charm
charm [charm charms charmed charming] noun, verb BrE [tʃɑːm] NAmE [tʃɑːrm]
noun
1. uncountable the power of pleasing or attracting people
•a man of great charm
•The hotel is full of charm and character.
2. countable a feature or quality that is pleasing or attractive
•her physical charms (= her beauty)
3. countable a small object worn on a chain or ↑bracelet, that is believed to bring good luck
•a lucky charm
•a charm bracelet
4. countable an act or words believed to have magic power
Syn: ↑spell
more at third time is the charm at ↑third
Word Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘incantation or magic spell’ and ‘to use spells’): from Old French charme (noun), charmer (verb), from Latin carmen ‘song, verse, incantation’.
Thesaurus:
charm noun U (usually approving)
•a man of great charm
charisma • • magnetism •
great charm/charisma/magnetism
have/lack charm/charisma/magnetism
Example Bank:
•He oozes charm, but I wouldn't trust him.
•He was unable to resist her charms.
•His natural charm and wit made him very popular.
•I nagged him for a week and used all my feminine charm.
•Many women had succumbed to his charms.
•The area is a little run-down, but that's just part of its charm.
•The dining room was dark and gloomy, and the food was similarly lacking in charm.
•The farmhouse had a certain rustic charm about it.
•The idea of being a farmer had lost its charm for me by this time.
•The town still retains a lot of its old-world charm.
•a politician with a folksy charm
•a woman of considerable charm
•He was a man of great charm.
•She was attracted by his good looks and his boyish charm.
•The route certainly had its charms.
•Venice— who can resist its charm?
Idiom: ↑work like a charm
Derived: ↑charm something out of somebody
verb
1. transitive, intransitive ~ (sb) to please or attract sb in order to make them like you or do what you want
•He was charmed by her beauty and wit.
•Her words had lost their power to charm.
2. transitive ~ sb/sth to control or protect sb/sth using magic, or as if using magic
•He has led a charmed life (= he has been lucky even in dangerous or difficult situations).
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘incantation or magic spell’ and ‘to use spells’): from Old French charme (noun), charmer (verb), from Latin carmen ‘song, verse, incantation’.
Example Bank:
•He charmed his way into the organization.
•Perhaps I can use his good mood to charm a concession out of him.
•She charmed him into giving her an audition.
•He charmed his mother into letting him have his own way.
•He charmed thousands with his singing.
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