chieftaincy
noun/ˈtʃiːftənsi/UK
Etymology
From chieftain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of captaincy.
- derived from *kap-✻
- derived from *kauput-✻
- derived from caput
- derived from capitaneus
- derived from chevetaine
- inherited from cheveteyn
Definitions
The position or period of rule of a chief.
- At first Matenge had hated his brother because he felt the chieftaincy should be his, and this hatred drove him to overreach himself until he was discovered in a plot to assassinate his brother.
- The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church.
The area or population ruled by a chief.
- And it does not help that the lowermost part of Broadway was originally laid out as a footpath by the people of the Wickquasgeck chieftaincy, long before Europeans arrived.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for chieftaincy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA