"witch doctor" meaning in All languages combined

See witch doctor on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktə/ [UK], /ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɑktɚ/ [US] Audio: en-au-witch doctor.ogg [Australia] Forms: witch doctor [singular], witch doctors [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A shaman from Africa or an island in the Pacific or Indian Ocean.
    Sense id: simple-witch_doctor-en-noun-zsFTcaE-
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "witch doctor",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witch doctors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "witch doc‧tor",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A shaman from Africa or an island in the Pacific or Indian Ocean."
      ],
      "id": "simple-witch_doctor-en-noun-zsFTcaE-",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɑktɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-witch doctor.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "witch doctor"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "witch doctor",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "witch doctors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "witch doc‧tor",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shaman from Africa or an island in the Pacific or Indian Ocean."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɑktɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-witch doctor.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "witch doctor"
}

Download raw JSONL data for witch doctor meaning in All languages combined (0.6kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2024-12-20 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.