Usually means: Manipulative mentor controlling another's career.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word svengali:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. svengali: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Svengali, Svengali: Merriam-Webster
  3. Svengali: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Svengali: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Svengali: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Svengali: Vocabulary.com
  7. Svengali, svengali: Wordnik
  8. svengali: Wiktionary
  9. Svengali: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Svengali: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Svengali: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. svengali: Dictionary.com
  13. Svengali: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Svengali (album), Svengali (disambiguation), Svengali (musical), Svengali: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Svengali: Rhymezone
  16. svengali: FreeDictionary.org
  17. svengali: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Svengali: The Word Detective
  19. Svengali: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Svengali: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. svengali: A Word A Day
  2. Svengali: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Svengali)

noun:  One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of svengali [One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.]

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