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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall);

2. a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief);
[syn: sachem, sagamore]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sachem \Sa"chem\ (s[a^]"chem), n.
   A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore. See
   Sagamore.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sachem
    n 1: a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall)
    2: a chief of a North American tribe or confederation
       (especially an Algonquian chief) [syn: sachem, sagamore]