chief

Meanings

Noun

• A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
• The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.
• The principal part or top of anything.

Adjective

• Primary; principal.
• Intimate, friendly.

Verb

• To smoke cannabis.

Related

Similar words

• chieftain

Narrower meaning words

• chiefess (female chief)

Origin

• From Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (English cap), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).