leader

Plural

leaders

1. 1.Any person who leads or directs.

   • The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
   • The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed.
   • We elected her team leader.

2. 2.An animal that leads.

   • 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.
   • 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.”
   • 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.

3. 3.Someone or something that leads or conducts.

   • The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater.
   • A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
   • 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.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Uncommon

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Rare

Antonyms

• follower

Word family

• lead
• leadership