Chief

Noun

 * 1) A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
 * 2)  The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
 * 3) A head officer in a department, organization etc.; a boss.
 * 4) An informal address to an equal.

Adjective

 * 1) Primary; principal.

Adjectives for Chief
indulgent; revered; supreme; prominent; gangster; powerful; local; native; usurping; polygamous; picturesque; murderous mountain; desert; brigand   hereditary: indignant; deputed; reticent patriarchal despotic; venerable;  artful   descendant ;inrluential; kind; uncrowned; tribal; domi nating; brave-hearted; gentle; generous formidable; independent; invincible; responsible; crimson-stained.

Verbs for Chief
advance to—; depose—; execute—; forsake—; guard—; hail—; hang—; idolize—;  name—;  oppose—;  patronize—; rank as—;  restore—; serve—; swerve from—;   torture—;  —commands;  —inveighs; —leads; —orders; —rejoices.

Synonyms for Chief
supreme, principal, capital, prime, leading, paramount, first, main, cardinal, essential, predominant, pre-eminent.

Antonyms for Chief
minor, secondary.

Derived terms

 * chief constable
 * chiefess
 * chief executive
 * chief executive officer/CEO
 * chief legal officer
 * chief mate
 * chief of staff
 * chief of state
 * chief petty officer


 * chieftain
 * commander in chief
 * dexter chief
 * editor in chief
 * fire chief
 * in chief
 * police chief
 * war chief

Thesaurus
leader, leading, leading light, liege, liege lord, lion, lord, lord paramount, lozenge, luminary, magisterial, maiden, main, majesty, major, man, manager, managerial, managing, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, master, master spirit, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, metal, momentous, monarch, monitor, motto, mullet, nombril point, noncommissioned officer, nonpareil, notability, number one, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, outstanding, overlord, overman, overmost, overriding, overruling, overseer, padrone, pale, paly, paragon, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patron, pean, personage, petty king, pheon, potent, potentate, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, predominant, predominate, preeminent, prefatory, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, premier, preparatory, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, prevenient, prima donna, primal, primary, prime, prince, prince consort, principal, prior, proctor, prodigy, proemial, prominent, propaedeutic, purpure, quarter, quartering, rabbi, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ringleader, rose, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, ruling, sable, sahib, saltire, scutcheon, seigneur, seignior, senior, shield, significant, sirdar, slave driver, sovereign, spread eagle, star, starets, stellar, straw boss, subforeman, subordinary, summital, super, supereminent, superintendent, superior, superman, superstar, supervisor, supreme, surveyor, suzerain, taskmaster, teacher, telling, tenne, tetrarch, the greatest, the most, tincture, tip-top, top, top dog, topflight, topmost, torse, tressure, ultimate, unicorn, upmost, uppermost, vair, vert, vertical, virtuoso, visitor, weighty, wreath, yale, zenithal, ace, achievement, acmatic, alerion, all-absorbing, animal charge, annulet, anointed king, antecedent, anterior, apical, arch, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, ascendant, at the head, auditor, azure, bandeau, banner, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, big cheese, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, billet, blazon, blazonry, boatswain, bordure, boss, broad arrow, bwana, cadency mark, canton, capital, captain, cardinal, central, champion, chaplet, charge, chef, chevron, chieftain, church dignitary, coat of arms, cock, cockatrice, commander, commanding, comptroller, consequential, consummate, controller, controlling, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, crowned head, crowning, dean, device, dictator, difference, differencing, dignitary, directing, directive, directorial, directory, dominant, doyen, doyenne, duce, dynast, eagle, ecclesiarch, effective, elder, electronics king, eminence, emperor, employer, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, essential, exordial, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, first, first and foremost, flanch, fleur-de-lis, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foreman, foremost, forward, fret, front, frontal, fugleman, fuhrer, fur, fusil, gaffer, ganger, garland, general, genius, goodman, governing, governor, grand duke, great, greatest, griffin, guiding, gules, guru, gyron, hatchment, head, heading, headman, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, helmet, heraldic device, hierarch, high chief, high priest, higher-up, highest, himself, honcho, honor point, husband, impalement, impaling, imperator, important, important person, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, inescutcheon, initiatory, inspector, key, king, king-emperor, kingfish, kinglet, kingpin, label, laureate, lead,

Etymology
From, from chief:, from  capum:, from  caput:

Noun

 * Arabic: شيخ
 * Bulgarian:, основен, главен
 * Croatian:, poglavica,
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: pealik
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: チーフ
 * Latin:
 * Manx: ard-er, ard-ghooinney


 * Maori: rangatira
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: căpetenie, șef
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chifu
 * Taos: łòwa’ána, tə̀ot’ų́nena (of town or house)


 * Arabic:, ,
 * Armenian: պետ (pet)
 * Bulgarian:, началник,  ръководител
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Croatian: šef
 * Czech: náčelník (fire chief), šéf
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Manx: ard-er, ard-ghooinney
 * Persian: فرنشین,
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: șef
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Adjective

 * German: ,


 * Russian: ,

Anagrams

 * fiche

Etymology
caput:.

Noun

 * 1)  head
 * 2) * circa 1170,, Érec et Énide:
 * Le chief li desarme et la face.
 * He exposed his head and his face.
 * 1) leader,

Descendants

 * English:, (via Modern French )
 * French: