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machis

machis is the plural of machi.

Meaning of machi

Noun

machi (plural machis)

  1. A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
    • Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see a machi in their communities of origin was impractical.2015 August 19, Pascale Bonnefoy, “Alongside a Doctor’s Care, a Dose of Traditional Healing”, in New York Times

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Proper noun capitalized: Machis

Machis

  1. (plural) plural of Machi

Questions about machis

What is machis the plural of?
Machis is the plural of machi.
What part of speech is machis?
Machis is a proper noun.

Words near machis in the dictionary

  1. Machins
  2. machinule
  3. machinules
  4. machiolate
  5. machiolated
  6. machis
  7. Machism
  8. machismo
  9. machismos
  10. Machist
  11. Machists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: machis (page history and authors); Machis (page history and authors); machi (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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