Sachem Definition

sāchəm
sachems
noun
sachems
Among some North American Indian tribes, the chief (of the tribe or of a confederation)
Webster's New World
A member of the ruling council of the Iroquois confederacy.
American Heritage
Any of the leaders of the Tammany Society.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Sachem

Noun

Singular:
sachem
Plural:
sachems

Origin of Sachem

  • First attested in the 1620s. From Narragansett sachem; compare Unami sakima (“chief"), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief"). Ultimately the same Proto-Algonquian root *sa·kima·wa as sagamore.

    From Wiktionary

  • Of Massachusett origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sachem Sentence Examples

  • August Belmont eventually attained the coveted eminence of Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society.

  • The Mohawks adopted him and elected him a sachem.

  • At the close of King Philip's War in 1676, Mount Hope Neck (which had been the seat of the vanquished sachem), with most of what is now the township of Bristol, was awarded to Plymouth Colony.

  • North-east of the Roman Catholic Cemetery, in the extreme eastern part of the city, is a monument to Miantonomo, a sachem of the Narraganset tribe of Indians, who was put to death here.

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SSASAC

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MEMHEM

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