chieftain

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A leader of a clan or tribe.
    — VI. THE PUYUMA GROUP. The tribes belonging to this group occupy the plains in Hinan and that neighbourhood, and call themselves "Puyumas," but the Chinese call them the "Hinan Savages". The Puyumas formed a very powerful State some 300 years ago, and united under one single rule as many as seventy isolated tribes scattered over the land, stretching from Hakusekikwaku and Seikoko to Harogwai in the southern part of the island, and were at one time so powerful that the chieftain was called by foreigners "The King of Hinan".
  2. A leader of a group. broadly
    — The robber chieftain divided up the spoils.

词形变化

chieftains plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chieftaincy chieftaindom chieftainess chieftess chieftainly chieftainry chieftainship subchieftain underchieftain

词源

From Middle English cheveteyn, cheftayne, from Old French chevetaine, from Late Latin capitaneus (English captain), from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of captain; related to chief.
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