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单词 sachem
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Definition of sachem in English:

sachem

nounˈseɪtʃəmˈsatʃəmˈseɪtʃəm
  • 1(among some North American Indian peoples) a chief.

    (某些美洲印第安人的)酋长;头人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Hall of the Lost Tribes - a smoke-free gaming room - features the marks of sachems of thirteen extinct Connecticut Indian tribes culled from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents.
    • Like the sachem of the Iroquois and the Lakota of the Plains, Hawaiian chiefs, too, had to adapt to survive and compete against the European intruders, and did so with some success.
    • In fact there are cases where Indians cheated other Indians by claiming the rights to sell land and transferring all the land of another sachem or tribe to the English.
    • The elder clan mothers in matrilineal Iroquois society had the power to choose the sachems, or peace chiefs, for each of their clans.
    • Among the Five Nations or League of the Iroquois, the sachem was a formally recognized social role, which was an elected position and, more significantly, limited to men.
    • Thus it is impossible (unless new evidence is forthcoming) to either confirm or deny the validity of this powerful and persuasive message placed in the mouth of an Indian sachem.
    • The leading sachem Massasoit told them that the population had been destroyed by a sickness.
    • He claimed that all the others in his group were burned at the stake, but that he was saved and married by a sachem's widowed daughter, whose dowry included European scalps.
    • These issues came to a head in March 1675 when a Christian Indian informed authorities of the Plymouth Colony that the Wampanoag sachem, Metacom (‘King Philip’ to the English), was plotting all-out war.
    • Each appointed a sachem and deputy to the tribal council.
    Synonyms
    chief, head, principal, senior official, senior manager, senior administrator
    1. 1.1North American informal A boss or leader.
      〈北美,非正式〉老板,上司;领导人
      a Mafia sachem
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There came a moment of extraordinary professional solidarity from the sachems of journalism in response.
      Synonyms
      leader, chief, boss, controller, master, supervisor, governor, superintendent, foreman, forewoman, headman

Origin

From Narragansett, 'chief, sagamore'.

Definition of sachem in US English:

sachem

nounˈseɪtʃəmˈsāCHəm
  • 1(among some North American Indian peoples) a chief.

    (某些美洲印第安人的)酋长;头人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The leading sachem Massasoit told them that the population had been destroyed by a sickness.
    • The Hall of the Lost Tribes - a smoke-free gaming room - features the marks of sachems of thirteen extinct Connecticut Indian tribes culled from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents.
    • In fact there are cases where Indians cheated other Indians by claiming the rights to sell land and transferring all the land of another sachem or tribe to the English.
    • He claimed that all the others in his group were burned at the stake, but that he was saved and married by a sachem's widowed daughter, whose dowry included European scalps.
    • Like the sachem of the Iroquois and the Lakota of the Plains, Hawaiian chiefs, too, had to adapt to survive and compete against the European intruders, and did so with some success.
    • The elder clan mothers in matrilineal Iroquois society had the power to choose the sachems, or peace chiefs, for each of their clans.
    • Among the Five Nations or League of the Iroquois, the sachem was a formally recognized social role, which was an elected position and, more significantly, limited to men.
    • Each appointed a sachem and deputy to the tribal council.
    • These issues came to a head in March 1675 when a Christian Indian informed authorities of the Plymouth Colony that the Wampanoag sachem, Metacom (‘King Philip’ to the English), was plotting all-out war.
    • Thus it is impossible (unless new evidence is forthcoming) to either confirm or deny the validity of this powerful and persuasive message placed in the mouth of an Indian sachem.
    Synonyms
    chief, head, principal, senior official, senior manager, senior administrator
    1. 1.1North American informal A boss or leader.
      〈北美,非正式〉老板,上司;领导人
      a Mafia sachem
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There came a moment of extraordinary professional solidarity from the sachems of journalism in response.
      Synonyms
      leader, chief, boss, controller, master, supervisor, governor, superintendent, foreman, forewoman, headman

Origin

From Narragansett, ‘chief, sagamore’.

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