Definitions for cacique

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cacique ca·cique

Spelling: [kuh-seek]

IPA: /kəˈsik/

Cacique is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in cacique (acceiqu).

Definitions for cacique

noun

1. a chief of an Indian clan or tribe in Mexico and the West Indies.
2. (in Spain and Latin America) a political boss on a local level.
3. (in the Philippines) a prominent landowner.
4. any of several black and red or black and yellow orioles of the American tropics that construct long, pendent nests.

Origin of cacique

1545-55; Spanish Taino (Hispaniola)

Examples for cacique

He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe.

The cacique looked at the carriers on their backs and frowned.

It is from the perspective of a Mexican cacique on his deathbed.

She put on her Shaman's dress and about the middle of the day the cacique of the Sun sent for them.

Ayllon struck down the cacique with his own sword as the nearest at hand.

It was that cacique to whom those Nepoios went, which came with us from the town of Toparimaca.

Then they would crowd around the cacique of the Sun to argue the matter.

Just at midnight the cacique put his martial bands in motion.

But he could not learn that the cacique had ever heard of such a body of water.

He was the cacique of the Sun and he was vexed because he had not been called earlier.