høvding

Senses and Example SentencesBetydning og bruk

1. overhodea head (of a family, a state) · a supreme leader for en stamme eller et folk the headoverhode of a tribe or a people
   • høvdingen kjempet for folkets rettigheter the chieftain fought for his people’s rights
2. mest om norrøne forhold: ledende person innenfor en viss krets mostly about Old Norse society: a leading person within a certain circle
   • han var storbonde og høvding nord i landet he was a great landowner and chieftain in the north of the country
3. i overført betydning: leder (1)a leader for en sak eller bevegelse figuratively: a leaderleder (1) of a cause or a movement
   • en høvding i vårt kulturliv a leading light in our cultural life
   as a suffix in words such as:som etterledd i ord som åndshøvdingleading intellectual figure