Term: potlatch: a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment)
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: halogeton: a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: liturgy: a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: call: a demand for a show of hands in a card game
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: rainbow smelt: important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: conversion disorder: a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: catechumen: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: slaver: a person engaged in slave trade
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: testator: a person who makes a will
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: orycteropodidae: aardvarks
Broader: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion | Unrelated: redstart: European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins