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单词 cacique
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Definition of cacique in English:

cacique

noun kəˈsiːkkəˈsik
  • 1(in Latin America or the Spanish-speaking Caribbean) a native chief.

    (拉丁美洲或说西班牙语的加勒比海地区)酋长

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In matters of traditional religion, which encompasses much of what white people associate with government, a cacique among the Pueblos and a kikmongwi among the Hopi have serious responsibilities to the people.
    • By February the Indian caciques (leaders or chieftains) saw the Spaniards were at their mercy and refused to provide any more provisions.
    • She is traditionally represented with two other figures, that of a black henchman, el Negro Felipe, and of an Indian cacique, Guaicapuro.
    • They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
    • The Guarani caciques exchanged women to formalize their alliance with the Spanish against the hostile peoples of the Chaco.
    1. 1.1 (in Spain or Latin America) a local political boss.
      (西班牙或拉丁美洲的)地方政界巨头
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many such communities are still ruled by caciques (local strongmen) according to ‘uses and customs,’ which may fly in the face of such constitutional rights as religious freedom.
      • It was committed to class struggle in a country that had scarcely had a bourgeois revolution, and to political action in spite of the manipulation of elections by local landowners or caciques.
      • As in Cuba, Jamaica's inhabitants divided their island into provinces, each ruled over by a cacique assisted by village headmen or sub-chiefs.
      • Tlatoani (head honcho), cacique, and caudillo - these words glisten on the pages of the derisive gubernatorial lexicon.
      • Moreover, new caciques emerged in the wake of agrarian reform, as officials of the agrarian bank and ejidal bosses entrenched themselves locally.
      • He said he had heard that nobody in the islands could stand up to the Admiral's power and so before he was deprived of his land and his authority as a cacique he wished to see the wonders of Spain.
      • A share tenant system has made most farmers captives of landlords, or caciques.
      • Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly.
      • Others, such as caciques, used the mission system itself to improve their material interests and cultural autonomy.
  • 2A gregarious tropical American bird that has black plumage with patches of red or yellow.

    酋长鹂

    Genus Cacicus, family Icteridae: several species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They included four oropendolas and four caciques in a molecular study of blackbird relationships using cytochrome-b sequence data.
    • Near the Panama Canal, explore Pipeline Road, which passes through the rainforest of the Soberania National Park and is home to 380 species including trogons, caciques, woodpeckers, and many more.
    • He observed that both species construct nests similar to those of some caciques and, curiously, they often nest together in mixed-species colonies.
    • Well over 100 notable species can be easily spotted in the Carara Reserve, including the great tinamou, red-lored parrot, crimson-fronted parakeet and scarlet-rumped cacique.
    • In contrast, all analyses strongly supported the monophyly of the oropendolas and caciques together.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Spanish or French, from Taino.

Rhymes

antique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak

Definition of cacique in US English:

cacique

nounkəˈsikkəˈsēk
  • 1(in Latin America or the Spanish-speaking Caribbean) a native chief.

    (拉丁美洲或说西班牙语的加勒比海地区)酋长

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Guarani caciques exchanged women to formalize their alliance with the Spanish against the hostile peoples of the Chaco.
    • By February the Indian caciques (leaders or chieftains) saw the Spaniards were at their mercy and refused to provide any more provisions.
    • In matters of traditional religion, which encompasses much of what white people associate with government, a cacique among the Pueblos and a kikmongwi among the Hopi have serious responsibilities to the people.
    • She is traditionally represented with two other figures, that of a black henchman, el Negro Felipe, and of an Indian cacique, Guaicapuro.
    • They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
    1. 1.1 (in Spain or Latin America) a local political boss.
      (西班牙或拉丁美洲的)地方政界巨头
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Moreover, new caciques emerged in the wake of agrarian reform, as officials of the agrarian bank and ejidal bosses entrenched themselves locally.
      • A share tenant system has made most farmers captives of landlords, or caciques.
      • Others, such as caciques, used the mission system itself to improve their material interests and cultural autonomy.
      • He said he had heard that nobody in the islands could stand up to the Admiral's power and so before he was deprived of his land and his authority as a cacique he wished to see the wonders of Spain.
      • It was committed to class struggle in a country that had scarcely had a bourgeois revolution, and to political action in spite of the manipulation of elections by local landowners or caciques.
      • Many such communities are still ruled by caciques (local strongmen) according to ‘uses and customs,’ which may fly in the face of such constitutional rights as religious freedom.
      • As in Cuba, Jamaica's inhabitants divided their island into provinces, each ruled over by a cacique assisted by village headmen or sub-chiefs.
      • Tlatoani (head honcho), cacique, and caudillo - these words glisten on the pages of the derisive gubernatorial lexicon.
      • Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Spanish or French, from Taino.

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