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   Head·man

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   noun

   • 1. the chief or leader of a community or tribe.

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   What is a headman noun?

   • the leader of a traditional community or tribe synonym chief Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. Definition of headman noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   What is a village headman?

   • A headman is the male chief or leader of a tribe in a village . The village headman invited us in for tea. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 2. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. Rare Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.

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   Why did a headman become a second headman in bahdu?

   • • Some officials relied on the evidence of headmen; others believed that the intrigues of headmen were a major cause of crime. • Bearded, with natural dignity and quiet authority, this reserved man soon earned the position of second headman. • It now remained to be seen whether this headman would be able to hand us over to another in Bahdu.

   headman | meaning of headman in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary

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   What if a group felt oppressed by a local headman?

   • Locked up for more than twenty days, the headman finally sold his livestock and paid off the kaymakam. Hence, where a group felt oppressed by a local headman, it could nominate and elect its own local leader to escape this oppression. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   HEADMAN meaning: 1. the chief (= leader) of a village or group of people 2. the chief (= leader) of a village or…. Learn more.

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   2 days ago · Definition of 'headman' Word Frequency. headman. (hedmən ) Word forms: plural headmen. countable noun. A headman is the male chief or leader of a tribe in a village . The village headman invited us in for tea. Synonyms: chief, head, leader, lord or lady More Synonyms of headman. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   Definitions of headman. noun. the head of a tribe or clan. synonyms: chief, chieftain, tribal chief. see more. noun. an executioner who beheads the condemned person. synonyms: headsman. see more.

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   Headman definition, a chief or leader. See more.

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   the leader of a traditional community or tribe synonym chief. Definition of headman noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Definition of headman. as in leader. the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do as headman at the newspaper 20 years ago, he hired the then-promising young reporter who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Synonyms & Similar Words. Relevance.

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   headman. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English head‧man /ˈhedmæn/ noun (plural headmen /-men/) [ countable] the most important man in a village where a tribe lives SYN chief Examples from the Corpus headman • The influence of government agents and chief headmen, on the wane since 1920, declined still further.