dervishnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdɜː.vɪʃ/us/ˈdɝː.vɪʃ/a member of a Muslim religious group that has an energetic dance as part of its worship:
The children were spinning around like whirling dervishes.
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Religious people: followers of religious groups
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- animism
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- Calvinist
- guru
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- hot-gospeller
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- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
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- televangelism
- yogi
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