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Meaning of totem in English

totem
noun [ C ]
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/ˈtəʊ.təm/ us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əm/
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an object that is respected by a group of people, especially for religious reasons:
Television could be seen as a totem of modern society.
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(Definition of totem from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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totem
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈtoʊ·t̬əm/
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an object that is a symbol for a group of people:
They thought of him as a good-luck totem.
(Definition of totem from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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（尤指出於宗教原因的）圖騰…
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