chieftain

Preposition: of

district: In 444 a site for a church was granted at Armagh by Daire, the chieftain of the district.

Converse of subject

lead: Such communities were organized and led by chieftains or kings.

Converse of object

• defeat: Luke 3.29 Back to top Libnah ( the king of ) was a petty tribal chieftain defeated by Joshua during the conquest of Canaan.
• call: The Mercians fought under the leadership of a chieftain called Penda and the Welsh assisted under the their king Caedwalla.
• have: The Clan is basically an extended family group ( or tribe ) which has a chieftain - the tribal head man.
• become: Aradil had only to buy his way into Eld's good graces, and he would become the chieftain 's successor.
• bury: As well as the royal tombs there are many old chieftains buried on Hy.
• invite: Accordingly he invited the chieftains to a banquet to be held near Stonehenge, or the Hanging Stones, on Salisbury Plains.

Adjective modifier

• tribal: Tribal chieftain who was located in budding skier to to science the.
• Celtic: By then, however, he had become much more English than Scottish, which did not commend him to the Celtic chieftains.
• Welsh: In 1175 it was the scene of the infamous massacre of the Welsh chieftains by the Norman Lord, William de Braose.
• Irish: Evidently, however, the prospect of waiting a year for the recovery of his position was too much for the Irish chieftain.
• native: This was opposed by the native chieftains and the rural ministers.

Noun used with modifier

• clan: A new clan chieftain was elected for next year, Fr Pat O'Malley.
• Viking: Based on the remains of a huge house thought to be the seat of a Viking chieftain.
• warrior: The burial provides further evidence of the early Anglian tradition of animal sacrifice at the grave of a dead warrior chieftain.
• Wessex: Were the Wessex chieftains the ` barrow boys ' of the Bronze Age economy?
• ruling: As usual, St. Patrick's primary care was to gather the ruling chieftains into the fold.
• twelve: This completed, twelve chieftains rode around the barrow, reciting an elegy and speaking of their heroic king.