Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Indian chief, especially in the Spanish West Indies and other parts of Latin America during colonial and postcolonial times.
- noun A local political boss in Spain or Latin America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The title of native princes or head chiefs of Hayti, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, and other regions of America, who were found reigning there when these countries were discovered by the Spaniards. Also applied to the chiefs of independent tribes of Indians in modern times.
- noun In the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, 1669, a dignitary of the next rank to the landgraves. There were to be two in each county.
- noun A bird of the genus Cacicus (which see).
- noun Also written cassique, cazique, cazic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See Cazique.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Originally a
tribal chief in theSpanish West Indies . - noun A
local political leader inLatin America . - noun Any of a number of
tropical blackbirds fromCentral America andSouth America , familyIcteridae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But the cacique was a man of business, and held out stanchly.
Westward Ho! 2007
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The cacique was a sagacious heathen of considerable experience, but he had never seen a man like this one.
Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910
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But the cacique was a man of business, and held out stanchly.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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To the general's query, whether the cacique was the subject of Montezuma, he replied, "And what other sovereign could I serve?"
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The natives thenceforward called the cacique Juan de Esquibel, and the Spanish commander Cotabanama.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Washington Irving 1821
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Though thus scattered, they are not wholly independent, each tribe being subject to a chief, called a cacique, whose dwelling is conveniently situated among them, for the more speedy summoning them together on affairs of importance.
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Anthropologists and archeologists who oppose the project accuse INAH director Alfonso Maria y Campo of colluding with Pena Nieto and his state tourism director Alfredo del Mazo Maza, the cousin of a powerful PRI "cacique" or political boss, to promote the governor's presidential ambitions.
CounterPunch 2009
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Anthropologists and archeologists who oppose the project accuse INAH director Alfonso Maria y Campo of colluding with Pena Nieto and his state tourism director Alfredo del Mazo Maza, the cousin of a powerful PRI "cacique" or political boss, to promote the governor's presidential ambitions.
CounterPunch 2009
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Manuel Sanchez Vite was dispatched after 30 years in power in 1959 when he ran afoul of President Adolfo Lopez Mateos and was replaced by his rival Carlos Junguitud. 30 years later, in 1989, Junguitud had a falling out with another president, Carlos Salinas, who installed Elba Esther as "cacique" (political boss) of the SNTE.
CounterPunch 2008
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One of the leaders is the son of a Chamula cacique.
Chamula Power 2009
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