Usually means: Traditional feast with ceremonial gift-giving.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. potlatch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. potlatch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. potlatch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. potlatch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. potlatch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Potlatch, potlatch: Wordnik
  7. potlatch: Wiktionary
  8. potlatch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. potlatch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. potlatch: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Potlatch, potlatch: Dictionary.com
  12. potlatch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Potlatch (album), Potlatch (convention), Potlatch (disambiguation), Potlatch (software), Potlatch (steamship), Potlatch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. potlatch: Free Dictionary
  15. potlatch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. potlatch: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. potlatch: Encyclopedia

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  2. potlatch: Anthropological Terms
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  1. potlatch: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (potlatch)

noun:  (Canada, US, also figuratively) A ceremony amongst certain indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest in which gifts are bestowed upon guests and personal property is destroyed in a show of generosity and wealth.
noun:  (US, chiefly Alaska) A communal meal to which guests bring dishes to share; a potluck.
verb:  (transitive) To give; especially, to give as a gift during a potlatch ceremony.
verb:  (intransitive) To carry out or take part in a potlatch ceremony.

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