leader

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English

Etymology

From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī (“leader”), equivalent to lead +‎ -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlidɚ/
  • Homophones: liter, litre, lieder
• Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)

Noun

leader (plural leaders)

1. Any person who leads or directs.
   1. One who goes first.

   2. One having authority to direct.

      Synonyms: chief, chieftain, commander
   3. 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

   4. A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

   5. (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.

      Synonym: conductor

   6. (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
3. An animal that leads.
   1. The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.

      Synonyms: alpha, pack leader

   2. an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
   3. Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

      Antonym: wheeler
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.
   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 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.
   5. (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll 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.
   6. (cinematography, dated) An intertitle.
   7. (marketing) A loss 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 the 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.
   10. (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
   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) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:leader.

Antonyms

• follower

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

References

• “leader”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• dealer, leared, red ale, redeal, relade, relead

French

Alternative forms

• leadeur

Etymology

Borrowed from English leader.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.dœʁ/

Noun

leader m (plural leaders)

1. leader

   Synonyms: chef, dirigeant

Descendants

• → Turkish: lider

Further reading

• “leader”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dealer

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English leader.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.der/
• Rhymes: -ider
• Hyphenation: lea‧der

Noun

leader m or f by sense (invariable)

1. leader (chief; one in front)

Anagrams

• learde, lederà

Romanian

Noun

leader m (plural leaderi)

1. Obsolete form of lider.

Declension

References

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

Spanish

Noun

leader m or f by sense (plural leaderes)

1. Alternative form of líder