Leader Definition
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Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"li:.d@(r\)/
- (US) IPA: /ˈliːdɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"li:d@`/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːdə(r)
Noun
leader (plural leaders)
- Any person or thing that leads or conducts.
- One who goes first.
- Follow the leader.
- One having authority to direct.
- We elected her team leader.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- Leader of the House of Commons
- Senate Majority Leader
- A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson; Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41:
- The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.
- 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson; Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41:
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes:
- Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.
- 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes:
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- 1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the world's vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora, page 82:
- A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
- 1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the world's vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora, page 82:
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- 1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786:
- when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower
- 1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786:
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
Quotations
- For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
Synonyms
- (one that leads or conducts): guide, conductor
- (one with authority to direct): chief, chieftain, commander
- (music): conductor
- (dominant animal in group): alpha, pack leader
- (engineering): driver, drive wheel
Derived terms
Terms derived from leader (noun)
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See also
- president
- king/queen
- monarch
- emperor/empress
- baron/baroness
- duke/duchess
- governor
- mayor
- sergeant
- general
- conductor
- follower
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English leader
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Noun
leader m. (plural leaders)
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Italian
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Noun
leader m. and f. inv.
- leader (chief; one in front)
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