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Another word for chieftain

noun

One who is highest in rank or authority:

boss, chief, director, head, headman, hierarch, leader, master. (Slang) honcho. Idiom: cock of the walk. See over

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The office of chieftain is sometimes held by women.
In 1667 the robber chieftain, Stenka Razin, made an unsuccessful attempt to capture the city.
His descendants, through the rescued Fancha, fell into complete obscurity until about the middle of the 16th century, when one of them, Nurhachu by name, a chieftain of a small tribe, rose to power.
Tong Castle shares with the castle of the same name in Kent the legend of the dealings of the Saxon Hengest with the British chieftain Vortigern.
The most famous bearer of the name was the British chieftain who led the native resistance to the Roman invaders in A.D.

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