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Definition: Totem |
TotemNoun1. A clan 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). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "totem" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Note: Totem \To"tem\, noun. [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to which person or place belongs.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Totem is a word of Native American origin commonly taken to mean any natural or supernatural object, being or animal which has personal symbolic meaning to an individual and to whose phenomena and energy one feels closely associated with during one's life.If the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is a totem.
See also totem pole.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Totem."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TOTEM | English | Total Energy Module | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Totem |
| English words defined with "totem": Loups ♦ totemism, Totemist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Totem" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (totem), Czech (totem), Dutch (totem), French (totem), German (totem), Hungarian (totem), Italian (totem), Manx (totem ), Portuguese (totem), Romanian (totem), Serbo-Croatian (totem), Swedish (totem), Turkish (totem, totem pole, totem post). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Alva, there is no one else in this entire office that I could possibly ask to share such a horrible job. You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva (Vampire's Kiss; writing credit: Joseph Minion) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Totem (1963) The Eyes of the Totem (1927) Fish and Totem (1921) The Totem Mark (1911) Totem (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Totem pole in Southeast Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The totem pole at NOAA's Pacific Marine Center. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Native dwelling and totem pole at Port Simpson, British Columbia. In: "Coast Pilot of Alaska, (First Part,) ...." by George Davidson, 1869. P.18. Library Call Number VK943 .N3 1st 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The totem poles at Old Kasaan Survey crew off the PATHFINDER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Harley Nygren on the right next to a magnificent totem pole at Old Kasaan Survey crew off the PATHFINDER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Big Chief Wind in the Face's family totem pole. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Totem poles, Alaska / W. Seward McClure, San Francisco, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The totem maker, Puyallup, Wash. / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by H.R. Hazeltine.. |
 | Kickseti totem pole and sunhouse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Totem pole. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Indian Totem" by Matt Skallerud Commentary: "Indian totem pole, Vancouver." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Totem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Totem" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.43% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "totem": totem pole ♦ totem post. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "totem": totem-animal, totem-father, totem-pole, totem-pole-like, totem-poles, totem-worship. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "totem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | totem. (various references) | |
Arabic | الطوطم شئ كالحيوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | символ (allegory, badge, emblem, exponent, insignia, representation, sacrament, sign, symbol, token, type), тотем, емблема (allegory, cognizance, device, emblem, insignia, star, symbol), предмет служещ за символ, предмет служещ за емблема. (various references) | |
Czech | totem. (various references) | |
Dutch | totem. (various references) | |
Esperanto | totemo. (various references) | |
Farsi | توتم , روح یاجانورحامی شخص , روح محافظشخص . (various references) | |
French | totem. (various references) | |
German | totem. (various references) | |
Hungarian | totem. (various references) | |
Italian | totem. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | デ杯 (bathroom, Davis Cup, lavatory, prerecorded announcement, restroom, talk, talk show, talkie, Taurus, tautology, toad, toast, toaster, tochka, toe, toe dance, toe kick, toeshows, together, Togo, toilet, toilet case, toilet paper, toilet powder, toilet soap, toiletry, Tokaji, Tokamak, Tokay, token, tokenism, toll, tollgate, tonal, tonality, tone, tone down, tooth, torch, torch lamp, torch relay, tornado, torus, total, Total Energy System, total fashion, total look, total product, totalizator system, tote bag, totem pole, totemism, tournament, tournament pro, toxoplasma, true, try for point, tutti). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トーテム . (various references) | |
Manx | totem. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otemtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | totem. (various references) | |
Romanian | totem. (various references) | |
Russian | тотем. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | totem. (various references) | |
Spanish | tótem. (various references) | |
Swedish | totem, skyddsgud, skyddsande (guardian spirit). (various references) | |
Turkish | totem (totem pole, totem post). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тотем. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Tôtem, vật tổ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "totem": totemic, totemism, totemisms, totemist, totemistic, totemists, totemite, totemites, totems. (additional references) | |
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"Totem" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iotum, Lotem, potem, Rotem, tatemae, thote, timtum, toate, todem, toem, togem, togen, toite, tokem, toktok, tolem, Toltec, tomte, toote, tooten, topten, torem, torten, tosem, toshe, Totah, totel, toten, Totev, toti, totom, tottan, Tottel, tottem, totten, Tottey, totue, totum, toven, towem, towte, tozen, ttm, tumtum, Tuten, Tzomet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "totem" (pronounced tō"tum) |
| 3 | -t u m | accustom, ageratum, antemortem, arboretum, atom, autumn, Bantam, bottom, momentum, phantom, quantum, centum, custom, datum, dictum, ecosystem, item, rectum, sanctum, stratum, subsystem, symptom, system, ultimatum, verbatim, victim. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: motet, motte. | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: mote, mott, tome, tote. | |
-2 letters: met, mot, tet, toe, tom, tot. | |
-3 letters: em, et, me, mo, oe, om, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: motets, mottes, mottle, totems. | |
+2 letters: matelot, mofette, mostest, mottled, mottler, mottles, mottoes, mozetta, mozette, omitted, omitter, stomate, tetotum, timeout, tomenta, torment, totemic. | |
+3 letters: amaretto, amoretti, amoretto, automate, bottomed, bottomer, contempt, demotist, hemostat, impotent, leftmost, matelote, matelots, mofettes, moffette, moistest, monteith, moquette, mostests, mothiest, motivate, motliest, mottlers, mozettas, mozzetta, mozzette, ofttimes, ointment, omelette, omitters, palmetto, remittor, remotest, roomette, stomates, tautomer, teetotum, tenotomy, teratoma, tetotums, timeouts, titmouse, tomatoes, tomatoey, tomentum, torments, totemism, totemist, totemite, westmost. | |
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