father vs chief

father and chief both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
father	Yes	No	Yes	No
chief	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, chief is a hypernym of father; that is, chief is a word with a broader meaning than father:

Other hypernyms of father include head, top dog.

father (noun)	chief (noun)
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)	a person who is in charge
the founder of a family	a person who exercises control over workers
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization	the head of a tribe or clan
a person who founds or establishes some institution
the head of an organized crime family

father (adjective)	chief (adjective)
	most important element

father (verb)	chief (verb)
make (offspring) by reproduction