What does chief mean?
Definitions for chief
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Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word chief.
Princeton's WordNet
head, chief, top dog(noun)
a person who is in charge
"the head of the whole operation"
foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss(noun)
a person who exercises control over workers
"if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman"
headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief(adj)
the head of a tribe or clan
chief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a), master(a)(adj)
most important element
"the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"
Wiktionary
chief(Noun)
A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
chief(Noun)
The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
chief(Noun)
A head officer in a department, organization etc.; a boss.
All firefighters report to the fire chief.
chief(Noun)
An informal address to an equal.
Hey, chief.
chief(Adjective)
Primary; principal.
Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
Webster Dictionary
Chief(noun)
the head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent
Chief(noun)
the principal part; the most valuable portion
Chief(noun)
the upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs
Chief(adj)
highest in office or rank; principal; head
Chief(adj)
principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man
Chief(adj)
very intimate, near, or close
Freebase
Chief
The Chief was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Its route ran from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California. The Chief was inaugurated as an all-Pullman limited train to supplement the road's California Limited, with a surcharge of USD $10.00 for an end-to-end trip. The heavyweight began its first run from both ends of the line, simultaneously, on November 14, 1926, scheduled 63 hours each way between Chicago and Los Angeles, five hours faster than the California Limited. The Chief was a success, dubbed "Extra Fast-Extra Fine-Extra Fare" though it failed to relieve traffic on the California Limited. The Chief became famous as a "rolling boudoir" for film stars and Hollywood executives. In 1954 the Chief reduced its schedule to equal its cousins, the Super Chief and El Capitan, and would ultimately drop the extra fare requirement as well. The Chief would have been the "crown jewel" of most railroads' passenger fleets. But it did not survive the national decline in passenger demand and its last run was on May 15, 1968.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Chief
chēf, adj. head: principal, highest, first: (Scot.) intimate.—adv. chiefly.—n. a head or principal person: a leader: the principal part or top of anything: (her.) an ordinary, consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally made to occupy one-third of the area of the shield.—ns. Chief′-bar′on, the President of the Court of Exchequer; Chief′dom, Chief′ship, state of being chief: sovereignty; Chief′ery, an Irish chieftaincy: the dues paid to a chief; Chief′ess, a female chief; Chief′-jus′tice (see Justice).—adj. Chief′less, without a chief or leader.—adv. Chief′ly, in the first place: principally: for the most part.—ns. Chief′ry, a rent paid to the supreme lord: a chief's lands; Chief′tain, the head of a clan: a leader or commander:—fem. Chief′tainess; Chief′taincy, Chief′tainship; Chief′tainry.—In chief (her.) means that the charge is borne in the upper part of the shield: applied to holding land directly from the sovereign: at the head, as commander-in-chief. [Fr. chef—L. caput, the head.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Chief
the upper part of an escutcheon cut off by a horizontal line.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
chief
See COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. A common abbreviation.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
chief
The head or leader of any band or community; a commander.
chief
In heraldry, an ordinary formed by a horizontal line occupying the upper part of the escutcheon. Any object borne in the upper or chief part of the shield is said to be in chief, though the chief be not divided off from the rest of the field as a separate portion.
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Rank popularity for the word 'chief' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1369
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'chief' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1977
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'chief' in Nouns Frequency: #975
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'chief' in Adjectives Frequency: #163
Anagrams for chief »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chief in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chief in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of chief in a Sentence
Leo Strine as chief justice has had more influence in a short time on the Supreme Court than probably any chief justice in Delaware, maybe any jurist for the amount of time he has spent on the court.
This kind of rhetoric from people who want to be commander in chief is not helpful.
For the past few years, this has been the approach of the other side -- trying to take the current commander in chief out of office, and it seems like all its doing is costing us money.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.
This is the first time we have charged Clean Water Act crimes for an actual discharge of oil into the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off the coast of Alaska, as detailed in the court documents, witnesses saw a sheen off the side of the vessel after the chief engineer hooked up a pump to illegally dump oily bilge water overboard.
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- قائد, رئيس, شيخ, مديرArabic
- шеф, вожд, ръководител, главен, началник, основенBulgarian
- cap, principalCatalan, Valencian
- náčelník, šéf, hlavníCzech
- Häuptling, Boss, primär, hauptsächlich, ChefGerman
- κύριος, αρχηγόςGreek
- jefeSpanish
- pealikEstonian
- فرنشین, مدیرPersian
- chefFrench
- ceannardScottish Gaelic
- xefe, principalGalician
- ard-ghooinney, ard-erManx
- दार सरHindi
- պետArmenian
- capoItalian
- チーフ, 長Japanese
- prīnceps, summumLatin
- rangatira, ariki, whakataka, poumatua, matuaMāori
- chefDutch
- sjefNorwegian
- wódz, szefPolish
- manda-chuva, chefe, líderPortuguese
- șef, căpetenieRomanian
- вождь, руководитель, шеф, главный, начальник, основнойRussian
- poglavar, šef, poglavica, vođaSerbo-Croatian
- mataiSamoan
- chifuSwahili
- inhloko, inkosiZulu
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