Chief and Retainer

Chief

Chief noun - The main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts.

Retainer is an antonym for chief.

Nearby Word: chiefly

Retainer

Retainer noun - A person hired to perform household or personal services.
Usage example: knights being dressed for battle by their retainers

Chief is an antonym for retainer.

Nearby Words: retain, retained, retaining

How words are described

female female chief female retainer
dead dead chief dead retainer
new new chief new retainer
former former chief former retainer
Other adjectives: local.

Both words in one sentence

  • Old Retainer with Parental Substitute - Impa, Zelda's chief of staff, has helped raised Zelda since she was born, and still provides motherly advice along with political ones for her princess.
  • Series / Takeshi's Castle Later (which is about a few weeks after Higashi took the position as Chief Retainer after Saburo left) he returned, and three weeks later the substitute was anticlimactically unmasked.
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