Chief
41chief — 1. noun /tʃiːf/ a) A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom. b) The top part of a shield or escutcheon. When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in… …
42chief — n. 1) an Indian chief 2) a fire; police (AE) chief * * * [tʃiːf] police (AE) chief . a fire an Indian chief …
43chief — /tʃif / (say cheef) noun 1. the head or leader of a body of people; the person highest in authority. 2. the head or ruler of a clan or tribe. 3. Colloquial boss. 4. Heraldry the upper third of an escutcheon. –adjective 5. highest in rank or… …
44chief — n. & adj. n. 1 a a leader or ruler. b the head of a tribe, clan, etc. 2 the head of a department; the highest official. 3 Heraldry the upper third of a shield. adj. (usu. attrib.) 1 first in position, importance, influence, etc. (chief engineer) …
45Chief — Das Wort Chief ([tʃiːf], englisch für „Chef“) bezeichnet im Deutschen in der Schifffahrt einen leitenden Schiffsingenieur in der Ethnologie einen Stammesführer, siehe Häuptling Chief in anderen Sprachen der amerikanische Polizeipräsident …
46chief — Synonyms and related words: A per se, Big Brother, ace, achievement, acmatic, alerion, all absorbing, animal charge, annulet, anointed king, antecedent, anterior, apical, arch, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, ascendant, at the head,… …
47chief — [13] Etymologically, the chief is the ‘head’. The word comes via Old French chef or chief and Vulgar Latin *capum from Latin caput ‘head’. The adjectival use is equally as old as the noun use in English. Other English offshoots of *capum are cape …
48chief — 1) chief bod n a foolish or obnoxious individual, a mis fit. A vogue term from the language of adolescent gangs, also recorded in the late 1980s among aficionados of dance culture. The term was in use among North London schoolboys in 1993 and… …
49chief — • An unintelligent person; “look at dat chief man, finkin hes all bad.” • general respectful term used to address a man. It can be used to address a superior. More recently it can be used as an insult where calling someone chief is indicating… …
50chief — noun 1》 a leader or ruler of a people. ↘the head of an organization. 2》 Heraldry an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across the top of the shield. ↘the upper third of the field. adjective 1》 having the highest rank or… …
