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• The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.From the entry creek
• The various tribal chieftains met each spring to elect an overlord that would lead them in time of war.From the entry overlord
• “The Pitiguara chieftain is brave and bold: Irapuã is cunning and treacherous like the acauã.”2000, José de Alencar, translated by Clifford E. Landers, Iracema. From the entry acauã
• In Ulster the great chieftains had become peers of the realm.1998, James Lydon, “The End of the Old Order”, in The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present, London; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry shire
• Odd was the chieftain of Borgarfjord on the south side of Hvita then.1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 180. From the entry godi
• Tribal chieftains in Africa had had official remembrancers about them; I was Ulick's remembrancer.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 387. From the entry remembrancer
• I never saw so many great chieftains surrounded by so many brave warriors!1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 32. From the entry winehall
• Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph.1958 August 11, “Live Virus in the Jungle”, in Times. From the entry jungle telegraph
• Such meetings were held in Macaco, the largest mocambo, which housed five thousand blacks and the supreme chieftain.2021, Ronald H Chilcote, Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil: Comparative Studies, page 251. From the entry mocambo
• Liu Chung-kuei, a Maoist chieftain of Kwangsi province, speaking at a meeting May 7, criticized former vice premier Teng and anti-rightists.1976 May 16, “Chou's will, a political rumor?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 19, Taipei, page 3. From the entry Kwangsi
• The first impression he must have made on the heathen chieftains was that of a man unintimidatable and devoid of fear.1938, Oliver St. John Gogarty, I follow Saint Patrick, Reynal & Hitchcock, page 302. From the entry unintimidatable
• Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.2015, Ward Rutherford, Celtic Mythology. From the entry drinking-cup
• Then, for unknown reasons, the last Lung king didn't pass the mantle to a son or daughter, but to the chieftain of the Wonambi.2015, Caitlyn McFarland, Shadow of Flame. From the entry pass the mantle
• Men such as Gaza security chieftain Mohammed Dahlan and his former West Bank counterpart Jibril Rajoub may have their eyes on the prize.2004 October 28, Tony Karon, “Mideast Braces for Life After Arafat”, in Time, retrieved 21 Jan 2018. From the entry eyes on the prize
• In Honan’s Ku-shih County, for example, poor people seeking a settlement of their problems flocked to the local Nien chieftain for help.[1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, “Predators Turn Rebels: The Case of the Nien”, in Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945…. From the entry Gushi
• Three years later similar institutions were authorized for Kweichow province for the benefit of the "sons and younger brothers" of the chieftains of tribal groups.1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, page 238. From the entry Kweichow
• The chieftain who is in rebellion has eight regular regiments and sixteen guns, so that I am unable to meet them openly in the field.'1908, George Devereux Oswell, chapter VII, in Sketches of Rulers of India, volume I, page 127. From the entry guerrilla
• Occasionally the most fortunate found a jewel, a golden-encrusted dagger, a ring, or some other precious gem which decorated the cloths of glory the Persian chieftains and satraps wore.2013, Paul Doherty, The House of Death, →ISBN. From the entry cloth
• Then the warhero, Wiglaf, ordered many of the fightingmen, faithful comrades, who were householders, that they heap up wood, fetched from afar, for the folk chieftain, for their hero-king.2010, Ruth P.M. Legmann, Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, page 104. From the entry warhero
• The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.2003, Carl S Raswan, Black Tents of Arabia, Xlibris, page 6. From the entry khanjar
• First of the host A youthful chieftain, clad in pelt of pard, Whose mounture is a striped horse of the wilds Caparisoned in gold, rides nobly forth.1902, Methodist Magazine and Review - Volume 55, page 215. From the entry mounture

Meaning of chieftain

1. noun A leader of a clan or tribe.
2. noun A leader of a group.

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How do you use chieftain in a sentence?

Chieftain is used as a noun. For example: “The robber chieftain divided up the spoils.”

What is a short sentence with chieftain?

“The robber chieftain divided up the spoils.”

What does chieftain mean?

Chieftain means a leader of a clan or tribe.