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Meaning of cacique
ca•cique
Pronunciation: (ku-sēk'), [key]
— n.
- a chief of an Indian clan or tribe in Mexico and the West Indies.
- (in Spain and Latin America) a political boss on a local level.
- (in the Philippines) a prominent landowner.
- any of several black and red or black and yellow orioles of the American tropics that construct long, pendent nests.
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- cacique (Thesaurus)