Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nightmarcher

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: night-marcher
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places.

Example Sentences

"... happening in, will not become confused and angry in his efforts to get out. Beds should not be placed directly opposite doorways. One keeps indoors when the Nightmarchers are abroad. On certain nights these progressions of ghosts can […]"
"The tail of that sinuous line of nightmarchers seemed very horrible, and as I saw them wriggling into a venerable tomb they seemed more horrible still. Then I noticed that the tomb's floor had an aperture down which the throng was sliding, and ..."
"[…] understood the vision of nightmarchers described by the Chinese man. Sometimes the phantom marchers will be seen stopping at the house of a dying person, to prepare to escort them into the afterlife. In this case, the nightmarchers were […]"
""And he hide; da buggah wen hide; if you discovered by a nightmarcher, they take you, boy. So, folks, always watch da road. Go where it's safe." The haole couple next to me nervously chuckled. An understated fright."
"Something from Irene's journals, about what to do if you happen across a nightmarcher on a moon-filled night."

Etymology

From night + marcher. Calque of Hawaiian huakaʻi pō.

Inflected Forms

nightmarchers (plural)

Questions

What does nightmarcher mean?: In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places.
Where does nightmarcher come from?: From night + marcher. Calque of Hawaiian huakaʻi pō.

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