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(colloquial, idiomatic) The current President and the closest members of his administration.
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(historical) A governor of a province; a commander, in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.
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(rare) The wife of an admiral.
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Alternative form of archleader [(rare) The foremost leader.]
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Alternative form of archpirate [A leader of pirates.]
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(rare) A chief and great grandmaster.
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(historical, Ireland) eminent scholastic, used as a title.
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The grand marshal of the old German empire.
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(historical) The office of atabeg, in his role as tutor to a crown prince or as warlord.
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(obsolete) A chief or lord.
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(anthropology) The chief or headman of a band society.
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(Scotland, historical) A burgh in Scotland, distinct from royal burghs in being granted to a landowner who, as a tenant-in-chief, held his estates directly from the crown.
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(Scotland, historical) A burgh of barony, spiritual or temporal, enfranchised by crown charter, with regal or exclusive criminal jurisdiction within their own territories.
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The role or status of burgher.
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The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.
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Obsolete form of Boeotarch. [Title of the chief officers of the Boeotian Confederacy.]
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The dignity, rank or office of a caliph
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Obsolete spelling of Cambridge [A city and local government district in Cambridgeshire, England famous for its university.]
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An area or region governed by a chief.
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A little or petty chief.
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A leader of a clan or tribe.
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Befitting a chieftain.
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(by extension) The chief or leader of a party or interest.
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(historical) The ruler of a county palatine.
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(in combination) An inhabitant of a specified county.
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(historical) An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army.
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(historical) A kind of military commander in the late Roman and Byzantine Empires, usually commanding roughly a battalion on land or a fleet on the sea.
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Alternative form of drungar (“a kind of military commander in the late Roman and Byzantine Empires”) [(historical) A kind of military commander in the late Roman and Byzantine Empires, usually commanding roughly a battalion on land or a fleet on the sea.]
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(historical) A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
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(historical) commander of a military corps of elephants
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(Ghana) To install as a leader of a group.
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(Ghana) To install formally as chief.
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(by extension) A leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant.
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(very rare) A Horn African or Cushitic kingdom or chieftaincy.
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The chief of a family or tribe.
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The rank or position of a graf (German or Austrian count).
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Son or grandson of a czar (emperor) of the Russian Empire. (A more literal translation of the Russian would be grand prince.)
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A title, especially of chivalric orders, fraternal orders and fraternal organizations.
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(historical) The most important Dutch official during the time of the United Provinces, having a role akin to that of a modern prime minister.
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(by extension) A figure of great authority and power.
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Alternative form of grand vizier [(historical) The greatest minister of a sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the sultan himself.]
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(historical) In Holland, and, until the 19th century, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts.
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(historical) Alternative form of heretog [(historical) The leader or commander of an army.]
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(historical) The leader or commander of an army.
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(historical) A unit of the Byzantine emperor's bodyguard.
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Abbreviation of junior. A title used after a son's name when his father has the same name. [(comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.]
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The traditional leader of a kraal.
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(historical) The head of a lochos in Ancient Greece; an officer or commander.
adj
Of or relating to a marchese, an Italian marquis.
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(now chiefly historical) A type of guard force in France commanded by a marshal (formerly used as a police force before the introduction of the gendarmerie); loosely (chiefly humorous), the police, the constabulary.
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(historical, military) The commander in chief of the Byzantine navy.
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The official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation.
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Alternative form of nawabship [The rank or condition of a nawab.]
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(historical) Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.
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(chiefly Australia, UK) An order of chivalry established for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement.
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A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
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(Oxford, historical) A secluded area in Oxford University Parks adjacent to the River Cherwell, used for male nude bathing; closed in 1991.
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Also capitalized as Pendragon: a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs: chief war leader, chieftain, dictator, despot or king.
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(historical) A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters.
adj
Alternative spelling of Praetorian
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(fantasy) the main leader of a group
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Of or relating to royalty.
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(archaic) A little king.
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(archaic) An eminent member of a group, or an eminent person in society; a sagamore.
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The role or status of a sapinda.
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(Nigeria) The role or status of a sarki (emir).
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(historical) The leader of a cavalry troop.
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Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
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One who rules over the sea
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A protector of the people.
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The head of a phalanx or phalanstery.
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(historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
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Alternative spelling of vizier [(historical) A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.]
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(historical) An ancient Mesopotamian 𒈛 (sukkal).
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Obsolete form of vizier. [(historical) A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.]
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Epithet for World War I.
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Alternative form of war chief [A chief who leads a group in wartime, a warlord, a war leader.]
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Alternative form of war leader [A person who leads a people or military force in a war; a war chief, a warlord.]
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A high military officer in a warlike nation.
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(US, metonymically) The US presidency and its administration.
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Obsolete form of vizier. [(historical) A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.]
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(archaic) The chief of such a militia.
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