chief

Naija

Etymology

From: English chief

Pronunciation

• tʃîf

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1542
• Frequency in raw corpus: 336
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 906

Adjective

chief: no definition, Chief -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:127)

   Chief Engineer Reuben,  — (NST_cleaned__31263, __no translation__)

   Chief Brando Omu Chief Brando Omu  — (bbc__25290, __no translation__)

Noun

Na name wey de dey call person to give am respect or praise.

Related forms

• chief priest

Translations

• English: chief

Noun

chief: honorific; mostly used for traditionalists (council of chiefs) -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Dem don put am for chief.  — (He has been installed as a chief.)

2. - (frequency:23)

   Chief!  — (deuber__6056, __no translation__)

   Chief, no!  — (deuber__658, __no translation__)

3. nmod (frequency:13)

   Why police arrest Kano chief of musicians  — (bbc__100632, __no translation__)

   na chief of general staff Hulusi Akar lead dem waka come.  — (bbc__11030, __no translation__)

4. det-nmod (frequency:10)

   De say, dis service chief-dem, wey di chief of defence staff, Gen.  — (ja102__1113, __no translation__)

   Na di chief of United Nations dem child agency wey be UNICEF talk dis one.  — (bbc__70419, __no translation__)

5. det (frequency:6)

   E no know sey one chief dey inside dat place dey guard di place.  — (IBA_04_Alaska-Pepe_MG__216, He didn't know a chief was there, guarding the place.)

   Di chief add say before you know wetin dey happun, everybody don run enta bush.  — (bbc__33544, __no translation__)

6. case (frequency:5)

   Im rule di country as head of state and commander in chief until February 2018.  — (bbc__52491, __no translation__)

   Seun tok for social media for 2016 say, Fela and Abiola start to dey fight diasef afta Simbiat Abiola, wey be di first wife of chief, claim say Fela and im gang thief her motor.  — (bbc__88074, __no translation__)

7. amod (frequency:2)

   Morsi sack military chief and replace am with General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.  — (bbc__9477, __no translation__)

   Selassie mama and papa name dia first pikin, 'Tafari Mekonnen' wen dem born am for 1892, later im collect di title 'Ras' wey mean high chief.  — (bbc__87635, __no translation__)

8. case-det (frequency:2)

   According to di chief, di king of di community dey visit dis sacred place of di mountain once a year.  — (bbc__11852, __no translation__)

   But I tink first of all, if you tell dis person dat we should ge~, bring oursef togeder, so dat we go and talk to di chief, everybody is running away from any responsibility.  — (JOS_37_Government-Agric-And-Women_M__57, But I think first of all, if you tell this person that we should ge... bring ourselves together, so that we go and talk to the chief, everybody is running away from any responsibility.)

9. conj-nmod (frequency:2)

   Zulu chief and former president Jacob Zuma  — (bbc__102248, __no translation__)

   Oyo-Ita enta hot argument wit President Buhari chief of staff and right hand man Abba Kyari on top secret document wey leak from her office.  — (bbc__79821, __no translation__)

10. appos-nmod (frequency:2)

    Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen.  — (bbc__25345, __no translation__)

    AFP/Getty Images Nigeria chief of army staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai  — (bbc__10614, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• commander 0.76 112, ibrahim 0.74 411, inspector 0.72 172, muhammad 0.70 117, general 0.69 1169, walter 0.69 94, onnoghen 0.68 209, tanko 0.68 57, commissioner 0.68 467

Antonyms

• commander 0.76 112, ibrahim 0.74 411, inspector 0.72 172, muhammad 0.70 117, general 0.69 1169, walter 0.69 94, onnoghen 0.68 209, tanko 0.68 57, commissioner 0.68 467

Translations

• English: honorific; mostly used for traditionalists (council of chiefs)