Usually means: Leader in some Native tribes.
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  1. sachem: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sachem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sachem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sachem: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sachem: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sachem, sachem: Wordnik
  7. sachem: Wiktionary
  8. sachem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sachem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sachem: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Sachem, sachem: Dictionary.com
  12. sachem: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sachem: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sachem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sachem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sachem: Rhymezone
  17. Sachem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sachem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Sachem: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. sachem: Free Dictionary
  21. sachem: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sachem: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sachem: A Word A Day

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  1. The Sachem, sachem: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sachemic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sachem)

noun:  A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians; a sagamore.
noun:  (informal)
noun:  A boss, a leader.
noun:  (archaic) An eminent member of a group, or an eminent person in society; a sagamore.
noun:  (politics) A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization.

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