medicine man

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   a Native American shaman

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Questions about medicine man

What does medicine man mean?

medicine man means "a Native American shaman".

Is medicine man a common word?

medicine man 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.