kachina

1. 1.

   a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit

   Broaderdancer
2. 2.

   a deified spirit of the Pueblo people

   Broaderspirit
3. 3.

   a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift

   Broaderdoll

Other forms of kachina

plural

kachinas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kachina

What does kachina mean?

kachina means "a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kachina?

kachina has 3 syllables: ka-chi-na. The stress falls on "ka".

Is kachina a common word?

kachina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.