tribal chief

Questions about tribal chief

What does tribal chief mean?

tribal chief means "the head of a tribe or clan".

What is another word for tribal chief?

Close synonyms include headman, chieftain, chief. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tribal chief a common word?

tribal chief is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.