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katchina

katchina is the alternative form of kachina.

Meaning of kachina

Noun

kachina (plural kachinas)

  1. A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth, or corn (among other things).
  2. A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.
    Synonyms:
    kachina doll, kachina figure
  3. A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.

Forms of katchina

pluralkatchinas

Questions about katchina

What is katchina the alternative form of?
Katchina is the alternative form of kachina.

Words near katchina in the dictionary

  1. katayef
  2. kataïf
  3. Katcha
  4. Katcher
  5. Katchers
  6. katchina
  7. katchinas
  8. Katchongva
  9. katchoo
  10. katchung
  11. katchuri

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Adapted from Wiktionary: katchina (page history and authors); kachina (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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