totem / ˈtoʊ təm /

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totem 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
  2. an object or natural phenomenon with which a family or sib considers itself closely related.
  3. a representation of such an object serving as the distinctive mark of the clan or group.
  4. anything serving as a distinctive, often venerated, emblem or symbol.

totem 近义词

n. 名词 noun

pole

totem 的近义词 5

更多totem例句

  1. For the Lummi Nation, totem poles historically are carved with symbols that represent a certain clan of a tribe or show a family or tribe’s lineage.
  2. The latest totem in our hyperpartisan and politically polarized culture war is the terminology around race relations in America.
  3. Scientists such as Fauci, after all, have been turned into totems of all that is wrong with the scientific community guiding public policy on things like coronavirus mitigation and climate change.
  4. Some childhood totem, like a stuffed animal . . . or a sled?
  5. He would never deign me with any sort of acknowledgment, because I was too low on the totem pole.
  6. That is something I look at as a totem of what movies used to be.
  7. Imagine how Vanessa feels, then, looking up from an even lower level on the sexual totem pole.
  8. William, patron of numerous anti-poaching organisations, will be a very visible totem of the cause throughout the week.
  9. They adopt a “totem” or symbol of the family and this is generally some animal, the turtle, bear and wolf being favorites.
  10. Occasionally, in very uncultivated tribes, some family or totem claimed a monopoly of the priesthood.
  11. Their totem was that of the serpent, and their name is not altogether unlike the Tuscarora name of this animal usquauhne.
  12. On the contrary, it is extremely probable that they were an Algonkin totem, which had the exclusive right to the priesthood.
  13. I allude to the institution of the Totem, which has been well known among the Algonquin tribes from the settlement of Canada.