Chief vs Prince - What's the difference?
chief | prince |
(senseid)A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:
(heraldiccharge) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
* 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry :
(senseid)A head officer in a department, organization etc.; a boss.
An informal address to an equal.
Primary; principal.
*, I.42:
*:Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin, 2010, p.600:
*:By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.411:
*:If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
(obsolete) A female monarch.
*Camden
*:Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
:He is a prince among men.
The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
*2011 , Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian , 26 June:
*:He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
:Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
*2011 , Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian , 16 October:
*:Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince ’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.
A common name of the mushroom Agaricus augustus .
A type of court card used in Tarot cards, the equivalent to the Jack.
As nouns the difference between chief and prince
is that chief is (senseid)a leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc while prince is prince.As an adjective chief
is primary; principal.chief
English
(wikipedia chief)Noun
(en noun)- My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.
- When the Chief' is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "''On a '''Chief ".
- All firefighters report to the fire chief .
- Hey, chief.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived 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 chiefAdjective
(-)- Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
