英语释义
1. the position or office of a chief leadership
Mandla Mandela's rise was a great source of pride for Mr. Mandela, who wrote of the pain of his father losing his chiefdom after a dispute with colonial authorities.
— Lydia Polgreen Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), who started off as a bumbling weakling in need of draconic pedagogy, has now ascended to the chiefdom of the wacky Viking village of Berk.
— Chris McCoy
2. a region or a people ruled by a chief
The Timucua lived along the northern Atlantic coast of the Florida peninsula …. Although they were somewhat unified linguistically, speaking a dozen or so dialects of one language family, they were politically divided into as many as fifty distinct chiefdoms.
— Christopher M. Stojanowski However, some tribes and even chiefdoms consist of herders who move seasonally.
— Jared Diamond