chieftaincy

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtʃiːftənsi/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The position or period of rule of a chief.
    — At first Matenge had hated his brother because he felt the chieftaincy should be his, and this hatred drove him to overreach himself until he was discovered in a plot to assassinate his brother.
  2. The area or population ruled by a chief.
    — And it does not help that the lowermost part of Broadway was originally laid out as a footpath by the people of the Wickquasgeck chieftaincy, long before Europeans arrived.

词形变化

chieftaincies plural

词源

From chieftain + -cy. Piecewise doublet of captaincy.
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