chieftains Definition

headman, captain, tribal chief, chiefs, clans, tribes, leaders, heads, satraps, bigwigs, godfathers, elders, functionaries, emirs, maliks, rulers, warlords, barons, kinsmen, potentates, hirelings, emissaries, elites, grandees, cabals, strongmen, tribesmen, fiefs, lackeys, chairmen, headmen, viziers, aristocracies, rajahs, politicians, servitors, overlords, placemen, sycophants, gowon, indigenes, honchos, flunkies, titans, courtiers, lords, connivers, pols, mountebanks, renegades, sultans, coteries, chieftan, operatives, meddlesomeness, powerbrokers, aristocrats, politicos, generalissimo, sunday punch, ogbomosho, nobles, plutocrats, backwoodsmen, pygmies, parley, gurus, baronies, retinues, nomenklatura, scions, autocrats, kwara, loyalists, ibibio, baganda, rascals, magnates, viscounts, allurements, pashas, oligarchies, dayaks, clansmen, factotums, confederacies, igbo, grand vizier, secretariat, flatterers, ransome, brigands, emperors, worthies, sachems, mallam, hoodlums, waterloo, kings, consiglieri,