English noun: Svengali | |||
1. | Svengali (person) someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding | ||
Broader (hypernym) | inducer, persuader | ||
2. | Svengali (person) the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically | ||
Instance hypernym | character, fictional character, fictitious character | ||