Definitions for voodoo

• Definition
• Anagrams (19)

voodoo voo·doo

Spelling: [voo-doo]

IPA: /ˈvu du/

Voodoo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in voodoo (doooov).

Definitions for voodoo

noun

1. Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.
2. a person who practices this religion.
3. a fetish or other object of voodoo worship.
4. a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo.
5. (not in technical use) black magic; sorcery.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo.
2. Informal. characterized by deceptively simple, almost as if magical, solutions or ideas:

verb (used with object)

1. to affect by voodoo sorcery.

Origin of voodoo

1810-20, Americanism; Louisiana French, earlier vandoux, vandoo vodũ demon

Examples for voodoo

In voodoo, the demarcation between life and death is more fluid; helping voodoo followers create order out of disorder.

There are whispers of a history of voodoo ceremonies and mysterious orbs of light appearing in photos.

Another declared she was a voodoo princess performing chants to make sure I got breast cancer.

"'The only form in which voodoo—'" began Father Brown, reading aloud.

We might have been offered up on the altar of the voodoo worshippers for all you cared!

Then there was the voodoo priestess, she with the black goat.

voodoo is the official religion of Haiti and was brought into the West Indies nation by African slaves.

In the background, outside, is Papa Legba, who is a Loa, the word for a voodoo deity.

We didn't have no voodoo women nor conjure folks at our 20 acres.

Hyppolite was a voodoo priest and, it is said, an anthropophagist.