chieftain
cheef tuhn
- n the leader of a group of people
- n the head of a tribe or clan
- Or was he really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (PTI, April 16, 1951)? The bones said to be Fawcett's were later proved to be those of another man.
- Mounted on a prancing ass, and with an embroidered velvet chieftain's robe worn like a chasuble over his Italian army uniform, bug-eyed Haile Selassie Gugsa, traitorous son-in .
- But chief comes from chieftain.