totem pole

totem pole

English

Noun

totem pole (plural totem poles)

1. (sculpture) Native American sculpture made by carving trees.

Hyponyms

• family pole
• memorial pole
• mortuary pole
• ridicule pole
• shame pole
• welcome pole

Derived terms

• low on the totem pole

Translations

sculpture

Arabic: عَمُود رَمْز‎ m (ʿamūd ramz) Dutch: totempaal (nl) m Finnish: toteemipaalu (fi) French: mât totémique (fr) m German: Totempfahl m

Hungarian: totemoszlop Romanian: stâlp totemic m Russian: тоте́мный столб m (totɛ́mnyj stolb) Spanish: tótem (es) m