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chieftain
English
Etymology
From Middle English cheveteyn, cheftayne, from Old French chevetaine, from Late Latin capitaneus (English captain), from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head). Doublet of captain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?i?f.t?n/, /?t?i?f.t?n/
Noun
chieftain (plural chieftains)
- A leader of a clan or tribe.
- (by extension) A leader of a group.
Synonyms
- (leader of a clan or tribe): chief, big gun, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, boss, employer, foreman, head, leader, mandarin, manager, mover and shaker, top banana, top dog, tycoon
Derived terms
- chieftainess
Translations
Scots
Etymology
From Early Scots chefftane, from Middle English cheftayne, from Old French chevetaine, from Late Latin capitaneus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t?iften]
Noun
chieftain (plural chieftains)
- chieftain
- (possibly) schore; leader of a Highlands clan
References
- “chieftain” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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defender
English
Alternative forms
- defendor, defendour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendeor
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??f?nd?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Noun
defender (plural defenders)
- someone who defends people or property
- (sports) one of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring
- a fighter who seeks to repel an attack
- (law, rare) a lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)
- (Scotland, law) a defendant in a civil action
Translations
Anagrams
- fendered, redefend
Interlingua
Verb
defender
- to defend
Conjugation
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin d?fend?, d?fendere.
Verb
defender (Latin spelling)
- to prohibit
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese defender, from Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /d?.f?.?de?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.f?.?de(?)/
Verb
defender (first-person singular present indicative defendo, past participle defendido)
- to defend (repel an attack)
- Synonyms: (archaic) defensar, proteger
- to defend (represent as a legal professional)
- (rhetoric) to defend
- to support (to back a cause, party etc.)
- Synonym: ser a favor de
- (sports) to defend (to prevent the opponent from scoring)
- (sports, intransitive) to play in defense
- (higher education) to formally present a dissertation, thesis or project
- first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of defender
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of defender
- first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of defender
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of defender
Conjugation
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:defender.
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin d?fendere, present active infinitive of d?fend?. Cognate with English defend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /defen?de?/, [d?e.f?n??d?e?]
Verb
defender (first-person singular present defiendo, first-person singular preterite defendí, past participle defendido)
- to defend, to protect, to hold down (contra (“against”), de (“from”))
- Synonym: proteger
- to stand up for, to stick up for
- to uphold
- to prohibit
- Synonym: prohibir
- to claim
- (reflexive) to fight back
- (reflexive) to defend oneself, to protect oneself
- (reflexive) to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fend off (+ de)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get by
Conjugation
Derived terms
- autodefenderse
Related terms
Further reading
- “defender” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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