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MEDICINE MAN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does medicine man mean?

• MEDICINE MAN (noun)
The noun MEDICINE MAN has 1 sense:

1. a Native American shaman

Familiarity information: MEDICINE MAN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MEDICINE MAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A Native American shaman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("medicine man" is a kind of...):

priest-doctor; shaman (in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medicine man"):

rainmaker (American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain)

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