headman

Preposition: of

• village: The headman of a village is the oldest male of the dominant subclan.

Possessives

• house: Pretty as a picture The pilgrims are welcomed to a village headman's house.
• family: The nucleus of a commoner Bemba village consists of the headman's matrilocal extended family.
• ax: Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, whose convictions and policies could scarcely have been more different, both perished beneath the headman's ax.
• relative: The matrilineal relatives of the subclan that owns the village, the headman's relatives, are the nobility.

Adjective modifier

• own: All villages are subdivided into hamlets, each with its own headman, an indigenous office.
• local: The local headman pointed out to us an overgrown site telling the tale that it was a Japanese war cemetery.
• tribal: It is interesting to see that the duties of the tribal headman in Freetown were almost identical.
• traditional: The values of obscurantist mullahs, traditional village headmen and gun-toting banditry replaced those of national equality, women's liberation and secularism.
• young: Without such support a young headman could not entertain.

Noun used with modifier

• village: The ten village headmen drank the holy water to seal their pledge to protect the forest.
• hamlet: The hamlet headmen do not, therefore constitute any serious threat to the position of the patriclan Avat.