Leader
['liːdə] or ['lidɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
(n.) One who goes first.
(n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
(n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Guide, director, conductor, corypheus, cock of the walk, cock of the roost, first fiddle.[2]. Chief, chieftain, commander.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Chief, director, guide, pioneer, head
ANT:Follower
Typist: Nora
Examples
- Mr. Pickwick paused, and looked steadily on Mr. Winkle, who quailed beneath his leader's searching glance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the present instance, a worse feeling than either of these actuated the leader. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The leader of the Gauls who sacked Rome was named Brennus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Am I a leader for nothing? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mrs. Pott's going,' were the first words with which he saluted his leader. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The head of the household or the tribe was less of a leader and more of a master, more like the Pal?olithic Old Man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In the devotional literature of his cult he is spoken of as the saviour and leader of souls, leading souls to the light and receiving them again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was the leader and protector of my comrades, and as I became distinguished among them, their misdeeds were usually visited upon me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But John Mosby was the finest cavalry leader that ever lived. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Finally the Tammany leader called a halt, as we were running big engine lathes out on the sidewalk, and he was afraid we were carrying it a little too far. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They suppose themselves to be searching after truth when they are playing the game of 'follow my leader. Plato. The Republic.
- Mihiragula, their most capable leader, has been called the Attila of India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Such was the quality of most of the leaders of the Jacobin party. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They begin to develop a warmer interest in their personal leaders, who secure them pay and plunder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are not organized to stop things and when they get organized their leaders sell them out. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Yet there is danger the moment leaders of the people make a virtue of homage to the unregenerate, public conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Kaiser denounced it again and again; its leaders were sent to prison or driven abroad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Blind leaders of the blind! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Meanwhile, the following dialogue took place between the two leaders of the banditti. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Possibly the leaders would travel too fast and too far on the road to perfection if conservatism did not also play its salutary part in insisting that the procession move forward as a whole. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These are but typical of hundreds of men who could be named who have risen from work at the key to become recognized leaders in differing spheres of activity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The leaders of the cockroach army arrived. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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