Word: leader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *laidī Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laid ▲ Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī Old English lǣdere Middle English ledere English leader Inherited from Middle English ledere, from Old English lǣdere, from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī, from *laidī (“leading, leadership”) + *-ārī, or from *laid (“leading”) + *-ārī. By surface analysis, lead + -er. Cognate with Scots leader (“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: /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/, /ˈli.dɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ] 1. Any person who leads or directs. Example: In an era when political leaders 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. 2. Any person who leads or directs. Example: Follow the leader. 3. Any person who leads or directs. Example: We elected her team leader. Example: America needs not only an administrator, but a leader - 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. 4. Any person who leads or directs. Example: Leader of the House of Commons Example: Senate Majority Leader 5. Any person who leads or directs. Example: The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county. 6. Any person who leads or directs. 7. Any person who leads or directs. Labels: UK 8. An animal that leads. Example: 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. 9. An animal that leads. Example: 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. 10. An animal that leads. Example: 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—“the leaders are the generations.” 11. Someone or something that leads or conducts. Example: A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole." 12. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 13. Someone or something that leads or conducts. Labels: UK 14. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 15. Someone or something that leads or conducts. Example: 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 the leader disappears into the cassette. 16. Someone or something that leads or conducts. Labels: dated Example: The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater. 17. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 18. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 19. Someone or something that leads or conducts. Labels: in-plural 20. Someone or something that leads or conducts. Example: 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 21. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 22. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 23. Someone or something that leads or conducts. 24. Someone or something that leads or conducts.