Definition of "magician"

magician

/məˈd͡ʒɪʃən/

noun
plural magicians, feminine magicianess
1. A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
2. (sometimes derogatory) A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.
  Quotations
  The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
  2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
3. A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.
4. An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
5. A person who astounds; an enigma.