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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishleder,ledere, fromOld Englishlǣdere(“leader”), fromProto-West Germanic*laidijārī(“leader”), equivalent tolead +‎-er. Cognate withScotsledar,leidar(“leader”),West Frisianlieder(“leader”),Dutchleider(“leader”),GermanLeiter(“leader, conductor, manager”),Danishleder(“leader, manager”),Swedishledare(“leader, conductor, director”),Icelandicleiðari(“leader, conductor”).

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Noun

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leader (pluralleaders)

  1. Any person wholeads or directs.
    • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on4 April 2012, page87:
      In an era when politicalleaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
    1. One who goes first.
      Follow theleader.
    2. One having authority to direct.
      Synonyms:chief,chieftain,commander
      We elected her teamleader.
      • 1928,Franklin D. Roosevelt,The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎[2],Houghton Mifflin,→OCLC,→OL,page40:
        America needs not only an administrator, but aleader - a pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the high road that will avoid the bottomless morass of crass materialism that has engulfed so many of the great civilizations of the past.
      • 1978,Richard Nixon, quotingSyngman Rhee,RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎[3], Grosset & Dunlap,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page127:
        On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North. My obligation as aleader of the Korean people is to achieve unification of our country by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.
      • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page195:
        Theleader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed.
    3. One who leads a political party or group of elected party members;sometimes used in titles.
      Leader of the House of Commons
      Senate MajorityLeader
    4. A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
      The company is theleader in home remodeling in the county.
    5. (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
      Synonym:conductor
    6. (music, UK) Thefirst violin in asymphony orchestra; theconcertmaster.
  3. An animal that leads.
    1. The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
      • 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt,Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page41:
        The gesture of licking and nipping aleader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.
      Synonyms:alpha,pack leader
    2. An animal placed in advance of others, especially on ateam of horse, oxen, or dogs.
      • 1846,Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, inThe 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 hisleaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste.
    3. Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
      Antonym:wheeler
      • 1852, Herman Melville,Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
        How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“theleaders are the generations.”
  4. Someone or something that leads or conducts.
    (person that leads or conducts):Synonyms:guide,conductor
    1. (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, page82:
        A strong centralleader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
    2. A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
    3. (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
    4. (fishing) A section ofline between the main fishing line and thesnell of ahook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
    5. (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of areel orroll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
      • 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes,Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
        If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that theleader disappears into the cassette.
    6. (cinematography, dated) Anintertitle.
      • 1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent,The Technique of the Photoplay, New York,page15:
        Theleader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.
    7. (marketing) Aloss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
    8. (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
    9. (printing, in theplural) 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.
    10. (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
      • 1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, inAppleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page786:
        when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver orleader; and the wheel impelled is the follower
    11. (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
    12. (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
    13. (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
      Synonyms:driver,drive wheel
    14. (meteorology) Thepath taken byelectrons from acloud togroundlevel, determining the shape of a bolt oflightning.

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Terms derived fromleader (noun)

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Translations

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one having authority—see alsochief,‎boss
dominant animal in a group
pipe to conduct water from the roof
principal article in a newspaper
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See also

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References

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  • “leader”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishleader.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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leader m (pluralleaders)

  1. leader
    Synonyms:chef,dirigeant

Descendants

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Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishleader.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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leader m orfby sense (invariable)

  1. leader (chief; one in front)

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Romanian

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Noun

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leader m (pluralleaderi)

  1. obsolete form oflider

Declension

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singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeleaderleaderulleaderileaderii
genitive-dativeleaderleaderuluileaderileaderilor
vocativeleaderuleleaderilor

References

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  • leader in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

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Noun

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leader m orfby sense (pluralleaderes)

  1. alternative form oflíder
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