Crossword clues for chieftain
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chieftain \Chief"tain\, n. [OE. cheftayn, chevetayn, OF. chevetain, F. capitaine, LL. capitanus, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Captain, and see chief.] A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.
Syn: Chief; commander; leader; head. See Chief.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., cheftayne "ruler, chief, head" of something, from Anglo-French chiefteyn, Old French chevetain "captain, chief, leader," from Late Latin capitaneus "commander," from Latin capitis, genitive of caput "head" (see capitulum). According to "Rob Roy" (1818) a Highland chieftain was the head of a branch of a clan, a chief was the head of the whole name. Related: Chieftainship.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A leader of a clan or tribe. 2 A leader of a group, e.g. a robbers' chieftain.
WordNet
n. the leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry" [syn: captain]
the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief]
Wikipedia
Chieftain may refer to:
The leader or head of a group:
- a tribal chief or a village head.
- a member of the ' House of chiefs'.
- a captain, to which 'chieftain' is etymologically related.
- Clan chief, the head of a Scottish clan.
- Chiefs of the Name, the recognized head of a Scottish family or Irish clan .
- Germanic chieftain, chieftains specifically of the Germanic tribes of Europe.
It may also refer to:
- Chieftain tank, the main battle tank of the British Army during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain, a light aircraft.
- The Chieftain, a comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand.
- Chieftains Museum (Major Ridge Home), Cherokee museum in Rome, Georgia.
- The Chieftains, a traditional Irish musical group.
- Chieftain Products, a former Canadian toy & game company
- The difficulty level in several games in the Civilization (series).
The Chieftain FV4201 was the main battle tank of the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A development of the Centurion and therefore a continuation of the British cruiser series, sharing a substantial commonality of parts with both its predecessor and successor. It was the "most formidable main battle tank in the world" with, at the time of its introduction in 1966 the most powerful main gun and most effective armour of any tank yet made. The Chieftain also introduced a supine (reclining backwards) driver position, enabling a heavily sloped hull with reduced height. Faster than the Centurion, able to maintain its speed longer than the Leopard 1 and out-gunning its contemporaries, the Chieftain was also the first tank to enhance its (already superior) armour with composite armour add-ons, beginning with Chobham developed in the UK.
It remained in service until replaced by the Challenger 1.
Usage examples of "chieftain".
Achilles, leader of the Myrmidons, one of the largest contingents of the Achaean army, summons the chieftains to an assembly.
Not all the kings and chieftains of the Achaians followed the accords set down by Agamemnon, but the pressure did work.
From allover the island people came to give honor to the new battle chieftain and to gaze with curiosity upon the foreign-born berserker who could wield the shapeshifting magic of their ancestors.
CHAPTER XLVII THE PROMISED LAND One sunset, shortly after his marriage, word came to the tent of Kenkenes that an Amalekite chieftain on his way to Egypt had paused for the night just without the encampment of Israel.
So he commenced to bargain, and in the end the person of Meriem passed from the possession of the black chieftain into that of the two Swedes in consideration of six yards of Amerikan, three empty brass cartridge shells and a shiny, new jack knife from New Jersey.
One of the rival chieftains of the factions having fled for refuge to the missions, the people of Asuncion assembled troops to take him from his sanctuary by force.
Wad Mohammad, chieftain of the powerful Badawi clan, sat opposite Shabeli.
His indignation was kindled by the report, that a rival chieftain, that Sarus, the personal enemy of Adolphus, and the hereditary foe of the house of Balti, had been received into the palace.
Evidently he was a chieftain, for in certain marching formations among the green men a chieftain brings up the extreme rear of the column.
He secured Galatia by the mass murder of its chieftains, and has murdered at least one of the Cappadocian kings.
Samanide chieftains of Samarkand -- but few Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon coins.
The merchant carried himself with a haughty air, the youngest son of a Kwaklahmyn chieftain and only child of his third wife, the daughter of the wealthiest merchant in Vorgensburg, Cedarbird had inherited both wealth and influence.
In the 1860s, those high desert mountain fringes had been the ones where a canny Apache chieftain named Cochise had led his people in order to elude capture by the U.
Esther the prophetess, clashing her cymbals, danced before the Messiah of Israel, who leant upon his victorious scimitar, surrounded by Jabaster, Abner, Scherirah, and his chosen chieftains.
Cecil wore a frown of concentration and held his head cocked toward the six Dinka chieftains conversing several yards away, in their even, musical and slightly female voices.