chief vs despot

chief

noun
  • A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. 

  • An informal term of address. 

  • The principal part or top of anything. 

  • An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man. 

  • The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. 

adj
  • Primary; principal. 

  • Intimate, friendly. 

verb
  • To smoke cannabis. 

despot

noun
  • A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant. 

  • A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries) 

How often have the words chief and despot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )