Synonyms of the word

headman

• n. Alternative spelling of head man.
• n. (informal) headmaster.

chieftain

• n. A leader of a clan or tribe.
• n. A leader of a group.

executioner

• n. An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
• n. (archaic) executor.
• n. A hit man, especially being in some organization.

headsman

• n. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
• n. (mining, historical) A boy who was not strong enough to put on his own, and was thus assisted by a younger…

leader

• n. Any person that leads or directs.
• n. An animal that leads.
• n. Something that leads or conducts.