Chief vs Excellent - What's the difference?

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Chief is a related term of excellent.

As adjectives the difference between chief and excellent

is that chief is primary; principal while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.

As a noun chief

is (senseid)a leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.

As an adverb excellent is

(obsolete) excellently.

chief

English

(wikipedia chief)

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:

My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.

(heraldiccharge) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.

* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry :

When the Chief' is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "''On a '''Chief ".

(senseid)A head officer in a department, organization etc.; a boss.

All firefighters report to the fire chief .

An informal address to an equal.

Hey, chief.

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Derived terms

(chief) * chief constable * chiefess * chief executive * chief executive officer/CEO * chief legal officer * chief mate * chief of staff * chief of state * chief petty officer * commander in chief * dexter chief * editor in chief * fire chief * in chief * police chief * war chief

Adjective

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Primary; principal.

Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.

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excellent

English

(wikipedia excellent)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Of the highest quality; splendid.

*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

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Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

*(David Hume) (1711-1776)

*:an excellent hypocrite

*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

*:Their sorrows are most excellent .

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* excellence * excellently * excellentness

Adverb

(en adverb)

(obsolete) Excellently.

*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:

Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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