DERVISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dervish mean? 

• DERVISH (noun)
  The noun DERVISH has 1 sense:

1. an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements

  Familiarity information: DERVISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERVISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dervish" is a kind of...):

fakeer; fakir; faqir; faquir (a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dervish"):

whirler; whirling dervish (a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling)