chief meaning in Sinhala
වරෙණ්ය wareṇya
/t͡ʃiːf/
chief in Sinhala: වරෙණ්ය (wareṇya). In English, chief means the leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.
Sinhala words for chief
- chief, principal, pre-eminent
- වරෙණ්ය wareṇya
English meaning of chief
- noun The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.
- noun Headship, the status of being a chief or leader.
- noun The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.
- noun The principal part or top of anything.
chief in a sentence
- All firefighters report to the fire chief.
- Bob is our troubleshooter in chief.
- Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
Synonyms of chief
chief in other languages
Questions about chief in Sinhala
- What is the meaning of chief in Sinhala?
- Chief in Sinhala is වරෙණ්ය (wareṇya).
- chief යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
- Chief: වරෙණ්ය (wareṇya).
- What does chief mean in English?
- Chief means the leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.
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Sinhala words from Wiktionary's Sinhala entries whose English meaning is “chief”: වරෙණ්ය. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: chief (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sinhala words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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