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Look up: Cacique

  1. cacique
    [n] - black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. cacique
    Person involved in nepotism or fraud. Originally a word for Indian chiefs in colonial Spanish America, in late 19th- and early 20th-century Spain it came to mean the local political boss who...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  3. Cacique
    Ca·cique' noun [ Spanish ] See Cazique.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/3

  4. cacique
    cazique noun black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Cacique
    `Cacique` or `Cazique` (female form: `Cacica`) is a term applied to the pre-Columbian chiefs or leaders, predominantly in Latin America. Some historians, such as Charles C. Mann in his book `1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus` (2005), have objected the use of the term instead of king to refer to the Native American monarchs, even if it is widely employed for the leaders of the so called barbars in European history (such as king...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacique

  6. Cacique
    • (n.) See Cazique.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. cacique
    (from the article `Latin America, history of`) ...before him. The larger islands were inhabited by the Arawak, a sedentary if modestly developed people with kingdoms, rulers, nobles, and ... In the pre-Spanish period, the Mapuche lived in scattered farming villages throughout the Central Valley. Each settlement had a cacique, or chief, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/2

  8. cacique
    any of a dozen tropical American birds belonging to the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes) and resembling the related oropendolas. Caciques are ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/2


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