znachor — meaning in English

English meaning

• healer noun A person who treats or cures illness, especially through non-conventional or spiritual means.
• leech noun A blood-sucking worm that lives in water, sometimes used medicinally.
• medicaster noun A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
• quack noun The harsh, honking sound a duck makes.
• quacksalver noun One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative powers; a quack.

Senses

znachor is used for these senses in English:

• healer One who heals, especially through faith.
• leech (Germanic paganism) A healer.
• medicaster (dated, now, chiefly, literary) A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
• medicine man A Native American shamanistic healer.
• quack (pejorative) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients [from c. 1630]
• quacksalver (archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative powers; a quack. [from c. 1570]
• sangoma (South Africa, and, other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.
• witch doctor A person (often male) who is believed to ward off witchcraft and heal through magical powers; a shaman.

healer — full definition

1. noun A person who treats or cures illness, especially through non-conventional or spiritual means.
2. noun Anything, such as a medicine, that helps cure an ailment.

leech — full definition

1. noun A blood-sucking worm that lives in water, sometimes used medicinally.
2. noun A person who takes advantage of others without giving anything back.
3. verb To drain something, such as money or resources, without contributing in return.

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