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

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)

 Context examples 

All right, you Haeckelites, I may reason like a medicine man, but, pray, how do you reason?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is a post there, filled with the goods of the white man, and a trader whose name is Jones. Likewise is there a white man's medicine man, what you call missionary.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)