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How to pronounce totem in English?

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Type Words
Type of kin, kinship group, tribe, clan, kin group, kindred
Type Words
Type of emblem
Derivation totemic

Examples of totem

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Not to mention the employees who knew her when she was higher on the totem pole.
From the cnn.com
They contained useful information, but, for me, they acted like a miracle totem.
From the nytimes.com
Altyerre means something like totem, but it also means dreamtime, creation time.
From the guardian.co.uk
High saturated fat and salt content place them low on the nutritional totem pole.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
Things are admittedly trickier if Jake and Kelly are above you on the totem pole.
From the democratandchronicle.com
It is the second time that Schultz has moved up the totem pole on MSNBC's lineup.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Several modern craftsmen were using power tools to carve elaborate totem poles.
From the post-gazette.com
The Sarimanok is derived from a totem bird of the Maranao people, called Itotoro.
From the en.wikipedia.org
However, a totem animal might exceptionally harm if one has done something wrong.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
  • Emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)
  • A totem is any supposed entity that watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan, or tribe.
  • TOTal Elastic and diffractive cross section Measurement (TOTEM) is one of the six detector experiments being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The other five are: ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, LHCb, and LHCf. It shares intersection point IP5 with the Compact Muon Solenoid. ...
  • Tu00F3tem was an Uruguayan Rock band formed in the early 1970s. One of the most important massive phenomena of Uruguayan music and represented the height of the Candombe beat.
  • Totem is a 2007 album recorded by French pop singer Zazie. It was her sixth studio album, and her ninth album overall. It was released first digitally on 5 February 2007, then as a CD one week later. The album achieved success in francophone countries.
  • Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun"), is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment. ...
  • Totem is a 1999 direct-to-video released by Full Moon Features. The film was directed by David DeCoteau (as Martin Tate), and stars Jason Faunt, Marissa Tait, Eric W. Edwards, Sacha Spencer, Tyler Anderson, and Alicia Lagano.
  • Totem is a media player (audio and video) for the GNOME computer desktop environment which runs on GNU, Linux, Solaris, BSD and other Unix and Unix-like systems. It is officially included in GNOME starting from version 2. ...