whirling dervish

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   a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling

   Synonymswhirler

   Broaderdervish

Questions about whirling dervish

What does whirling dervish mean?

whirling dervish means "a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling".

What is another word for whirling dervish?

Close synonyms include whirler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whirling dervish a common word?

whirling dervish 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.