Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
philter is a noun meaning "a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it". It carries one recorded sense.
a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for philter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.