English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
| **** ตัวอย่างประโยคที่ใช้คำว่า totem **** จาก Tanaka JP-EN Corpus
| totem | Totem poles consist of a group of figures which represent animals, birds, fish, mythological beings and supernatural beasts. |
| totem | These poles, called totem poles, are thought to have been worshipped or constructed for frightening enemies. |
| English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
| totem | (โท'เทิม) n. รูปสัตว์หรือพืชที่สลักอยู่บนเสาอินเดียนแดงที่เรียกว่าtotem pole/เป็นสัญลักษณ์ของเผ่าตระกูลครอบครัวหรืออื่น ๆ, See also: totemic adj. totemically adv. |
| totemism | (โท'ทะมิสซึม) n. ระบบการแบ่งเผ่าต่าง ๆ ตามสัญลักษณ์ของ totem |
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| Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found) |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Totem \To"tem\, n. [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to
which a person or place belongs.]
1. A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by
the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as
of a family or a clan; also, the object or animal itself,
considered as an symbol of the family.
[1913 Webster]
And they painted on the grave posts
Of the graves, yet unforgotten,
Each his own ancestral totem
Each the symbol of his household;
Figures of the bear and reindeer,
Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. --Longfellow.
[1913 Webster]
The totem, the clan deity, the beast or bird who in
some supernatural way attends to the clan and
watches over it. --Bagehot.
[1913 Webster]
2. Anything which serves as a venerated or mystic symbol or
emblem.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
totem
n 1: a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common
totemic object
2: emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant;
serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among
American Indians)
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