Usually means: Spiritual guide, healer, ritual practitioner.
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  1. shaman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shaman: Merriam-Webster
  3. shaman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shaman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shaman: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shaman: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shaman, shaman: Wordnik
  8. shaman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shaman: Wiktionary
  10. shaman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shaman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shaman: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shaman: Dictionary.com
  14. shaman: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Shaman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shaman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shaman: Rhymezone
  19. Shaman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shaman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shaman: FreeDictionary.org
  22. shaman: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. shaman: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Shaman: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  2. shaman: Anthropological Terms
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shaman (shah-man): Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shamanic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A traditional faith healer.
noun:  A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds; sometimes also a healer.

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