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Leader of a tribal society or chiefdom
- A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
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A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom. A portrait of a Koli tribal chief of Dahewan in Gujarat, India
the leader of a tribe. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. People in charge of or controlling other people. acephalous. administrator. anti-management. authority. bureaucrat. council. counter-power. dean. deputy. dominatrix. manipulator. mistress. movers and shakers. multi-headed. officer. troika. tsar. vice presidency. vice president.
: a chief especially of a band, tribe, or clan. chieftainship. ˈchēf-tən-ˌship. noun. Examples of chieftain in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web Bernadine is the great-granddaughter of Victorio, the Chiricahua Apache warrior and chieftain.
chieftain. noun [ C ] us / ˈtʃiːf.t ə n / uk / ˈtʃiːf.t ə n /. Add to word list. the leader of a tribe. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. People in charge of or controlling other people. acephalous. administrator.
Definition of chieftain noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)
noun. the chief of a clan or a tribe. a leader of a group, band, etc.: the robbers' chieftain. Chieftain,Military. Britain's main battle tank since 1969, fitted with a 120 mm gun and two machine guns and weighing 55 tons (50 metric tons). chieftain. / ˈtʃiːftən; -tɪn /.
