Definitions for kachina

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kachina ka·chi·na

Spelling: [kuh-chee-nuh]

IPA: /kəˈtʃi nə/

Kachina is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in kachina (aachikn).

Definitions for kachina

noun

1. any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
2. a Hopi religious ritual at which such masked dancers perform.
3. a masked dancer impersonating such a spirit at a Hopi religious ritual.
4. kachina doll.

Origin of kachina

1885-90; Hopi ḳacína Keresan (Santa Ana) k̉â˙cina (or a cognate word)

Examples for kachina

The name of this kachina was Hair Eater, and he was supposed to cut off the hair if he beat the boy, but he never did beat him.

The ruins about Kishyuba, connected with the kachina people, also belong to Tusayan.