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Definition: Witch Doctor |
Witch DoctorNoun1. Someone who is believed to heal through magical powers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general practitioner, specialist; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech; osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist, oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack, exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse, midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide, candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Witch Doctor |
| English words defined with "witch doctor": conjure man, conjurer, conjuror. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "witch doctor": CALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA ♦ MALACHRA. (references) |
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Lyrics | Let the witch doctor, Ice, do the dance to cure (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice) | |
Movie/TV Titles | U-238 and the Witch Doctor (1966) Moro Witch Doctor (1964) White Witch Doctor (1953) | |
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 | From the era of witch doctor to the era of physician. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Paul Almasy.. |  | Old Indian witch doctor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40 or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it. Civilization advances into the inner sanctums of the medicine men, and penetrates the Dark Continent, which for hun. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Children | Uganda | In December police in the eastern town of Mbale arrested Sheikh Hamdan Madanga, a witch doctor, for possession of a human head in his shrine. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
witch doctor | 62 |
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| Language | Translations for "witch doctor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | magjistar i fisit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шаман (medicine man, shaman, voodoo), знахар (charlatan, medicaster, quack, quacksalver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ördögûzõ (conjurer, conjuror, exorcist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stregone (medicine man, sorcerer, Warlock, wizard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itchway octorday знахарь (charlatan, doctor, medicaster, medicine man, medicineman, mountebank, powwow, quack, quacksalver, voodoo, voodoo doctor, voodoo priest, witch-doctor). (various references) vrač (diviner, fortune teller, mage, medicine man, medicineman, sorcerer). (various references) medicinman (medicine man). (various references) kabile büyücüsü. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cynoglossus vulgaris, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, Pleuronectes cynoglossus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-h-i-o-o-r-t-t-w" | |
-3 letters: orthotic, trochoid. | |
-4 letters: choroid, ochroid, ridotto. | |
-5 letters: choric, cohort, crotch, dhooti, doctor, hotrod, octroi, orchid, rhodic, thoric, tictoc, toroid, toroth, tricot, trowth, twitch. | |
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