leader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
broadcasting
business
cinematography
climatology
engineering
entertainment
film
fishing
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
marketing
media
meteorology
mining
music
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
television
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *laidī
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Proto-West Germanic *laid
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Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī
Old English lǣdere
Middle English leder
English leader
Inherited from Middle English leder, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī, from *laidī (“leading, leadership”) + *-ārī, or from *laid (“leading”) + *-ārī. By surface analysis, 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: leaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
examples: Follow the leader.
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
examples: We elected her team leader.
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.
On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North. My obligation as a leader of the Korean people is to achieve unification of our country by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.
The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed.
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
examples: Leader of the House of Commons
Senate Majority Leader
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
examples: The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
gloss: Any person who leads or directs.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An animal that leads.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An animal that leads.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An animal that leads.
pos: noun
examples: 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.”
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
examples: A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
pos: noun
Antonyms: follower
Related words: baron
baroness
conductor
duke
duchess
emperor
empress
follower
general
governor
king
queen
mayor
monarch
president
sergeant
Derived words: academy leader
ape leader
archleader
arch-leader
bandleader
bearleader
bear leader
cheerleader
chip leader
choirleader
clubhouse leader
coleader
deckplate leader
destroyer leader
e-leader
fairleader
fleet leader
follow my leader
follow-the-leader
follow the leader
foreleader
gangleader
gloomleader
grassroots leader
group leader
houseleader
kill leader
leaderboard
leader board
leaderess
leaderette
leaderfag
leaderful
leaderine
leaderish
leaderless
leaderlike
leaderly
leaderman
leader of the free world
leader of the opposition
leader sequence
leadership
majority leader
market leader
micronational leader
minority leader
mountain leader
multileader
nonleader
opinion leader
pack leader
party leader
patrol leader
playleader
puppet leader
religious leader
ringleader
ring leader
senior patrol leader
small leader
spiritual leader
squadron leader
subleader
supreme leader
tab leader
thought leader
thought-leader
war leader
water leader
wood leader
world leader
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