medicine man
A Native American shamanistic healerA Native American shamanistic healer.
» One man's medicine is another man's poison.
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3 sensesA Native American shamanistic healer.
Medizinmann
a Native American shaman
A traditional healer among other indigenous or ancient peoples.
The pitchman at a medicine show.
Examples
5 sentencesOne man's medicine is another man's poison.
Oleg took Anna to meet the medicine man.
Ziri brought a medicine man who performed a cleansing ceremony.
Ziri called a medicine man to treat Rima.
Janos called the medicine man to come and pray over Olivia.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Probably a calque of Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini (“doctor”), from mashkiki (“medicine”) + ininiProbably a calque of Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini (“doctor”), from mashkiki (“medicine”) + inini (“man”).
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Forms
plural: medicine men| Singular | medicine man |
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irregular · Lesson
Word family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.