powwow

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: pow=wow

CIDE DICTIONARY

powwow, n. 

•  A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians.  [1913 Webster]

  "Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow."  [1913 Webster]
•  Conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by Indians for the cure of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other purposes.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any assembly characterized by noise and confusion; a noisy frolic or gathering.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any meeting assembled to discuss an issue; a parley.  [PJC]

powwow, v. i. 

•  To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.  [1913 Webster]
•  To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.  [1913 Webster]
•  To hold a meeting to discuss an issue.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

powwow, n. & v.
--n. a conference or meeting for discussion (orig. among N. American Indians).
--v.tr. hold a powwow.

Etymology

Algonquian powah, powwaw magician (lit. 'he dreams')

THESAURUS

powwow

advise, advise with, audience, bargain, bargaining, bargaining session, call in, collogue, compare notes, conclave, confab, confabulate, confabulation, confer, confer with, conference, confrontation, congress, constitutional convention, consult, consult with, consultation, convention, council, council fire, council of war, counsel, county convention, deliberate, discuss, discuss with, discussion, exchange observations, exchange of views, exchange views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, have conversations, high-level talk, hold conference, huddle, interchange of views, interview, meeting, national convention, negotiate, negotiations, news conference, nominating convention, palaver, parley, political convention, pourparler, preliminary convention, press conference, put heads together, quadrennial circus, reason with, refer to, seance, session, sit down together, sit down with, sitting, state convention, summit, summit conference, summitry, take counsel, take up with, talk over, treat

ROGET THESAURUS

powwow

Conversation

N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.

VB talk together, converse, confabulate, hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation, put in a word, shine in conversation, bandy words, parley, palaver, chat, gossip, tattle, prate, powwow, discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with, hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse, talk it over, be closeted with, talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.