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Medicine Man

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Noun

1. medicine man

a Native American shaman

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Medicine Man

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noun
(among certain peoples, esp Native Americans) a person believed to have supernatural powers of healing; a magician or sorcerer

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Medicine Man

see synonyms of medicine man
among North American Indians, etc., a man believed to have supernatural powers of curing disease and controlling spirits; shaman

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Medicine Man

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n.
1. A male shaman or shamanistic healer, especially among Native American peoples.
2. A hawker of nostrums among the audience in a medicine show.

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