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chiefship

noun

Etymology

From chief + -ship. Piecewise doublet of headship.

  1. derived from *káput✻
  2. derived from *kaput✻
  3. derived from caput — “head”
  4. derived from capus
  5. derived from chef
  6. inherited from cheef
  7. suffixed as chiefship — “chief + ship”

Definitions

  1. The role or position of a chief.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA