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Chieftess vs Chiefess - What's the difference?

chieftess | chiefess |

As nouns the difference between chieftess and chiefess

is that chieftess is a female form of the word chief or chieftain, meaning the leader of a tribe or clan while chiefess is a female chief or the wife of a chief.

chieftess

English

Noun

(es)
  • A female form of the word chief or chieftain, meaning the leader of a tribe or clan.
  • *"This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendents ..." New travels among the Indians of North America , William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. [http://books.google.com/books?id=xcIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA294&dq=chieftess&hl=en&ei=lUkqTMDcDsL58AaetZ3SCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • *Loved by a Maori Chieftess (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)

    • chiefess

    English

    Noun

    (chiefesses)
  • (Hawaii) A female chief or the wife of a chief.

    • Synonyms

    * chieftainess