Chieftains
Nobles and chieftains are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nobles" instead a noun "Chieftains".
Nobles
Chieftains and nobles are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chieftains" instead a noun "Nobles".
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Irish chieftains in the Middle Ages were known to recruit displaced Scottish nobles, known as Gallowglass warriors.
Source: Praetorian Guard -
Both flavours are the partially mummified corpses of nobles, guards and tribal chieftains, and use pretty much exactly the same rules.
Source: Our Wights Are Different -
Blood revenge continued in the Norse-lands even as they became monarchies, with the chieftains as nobles and jarls, until the 1200s, when the practice was banned in Norway and Sweden and replaced with courts and laws.
Source: Cycle of Revenge
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Nobles and Chieftains. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chieftains/nobles
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