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leader en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈli.dɚ/ (Canada, US)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈli.ɾɚ] (Canada, US)
  • /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/ (UK)

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”).

Meanings

  1. Any person who leads or directs.
    • 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. 2012 January 14, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:
  2. Any person who leads or directs. ▸ One who goes first.
    • Follow the leader.
  3. Any person who leads or directs. ▸ One having authority to direct.
    • We elected her team leader.
    • 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. 1978, Richard Nixon, quoting Syngman Rhee, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
    • 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. 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:
    • The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 195:
  4. Any person who leads or directs. ▸ 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
  5. Any person who leads or directs. ▸ A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
    • The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
  6. Any person who leads or directs. ▸ A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
  7. (UK) Any person who leads or directs. ▸ The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
  8. An animal that leads. ▸ The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
    • 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. 1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41:
  9. An animal that leads. ▸ An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
    • 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. 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes:
  10. An animal that leads. ▸ Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
    • 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.” 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
  11. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
    • A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole." 1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the world's vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora, page 82:
  12. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
  13. (UK) Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
  14. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ 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.
  15. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ 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.
    • 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. 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
  16. (dated) Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ An intertitle.
    • The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater. 1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 15:
  17. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
  18. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
  19. (in-plural) Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ 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.
  20. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
    • 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 1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786:
  21. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
  22. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
  23. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
  24. Someone or something that leads or conducts. ▸ The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.

Forms

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Antonyms

wheeler · follower

Deriveds

chip leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · grassroots leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · war leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · bandleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · religious leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderly (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · patrol leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leader sequence (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · subleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · squadron leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderlike (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · senior patrol leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · deckplate leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · market leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leadership (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · puppet leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · clubhouse leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · party leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · group leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · choirleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · world leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · minority leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · micronational leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · foreleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · kill leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · fairleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · supreme leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderman (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · ring leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · gangleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · bear leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · wood leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · small leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · bearleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · houseleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · water leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · multileader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · nonleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderfag (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · follow-the-leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderess (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · spiritual leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · follow the leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · tab leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · fleet leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · pack leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leader board (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · cheerleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · gloomleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leader of the free world (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · destroyer leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · follow my leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderish (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · opinion leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · academy leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · ringleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · majority leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · mountain leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · thought-leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · archleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · arch-leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderette (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leader of the opposition (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · coleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · thought leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · playleader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · e-leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderine (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderboard (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · ape leader (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderless (Terms derived from leader (noun)) · leaderful (Terms derived from leader (noun))

Descendants

리더 · líder · lider · líder · لیدر · lider · lídr · líder · лі́дер · リーダー · líder · ли́дер · lider

Relateds

sergeant · duchess · president · duke · monarch · baron · governor · general · mayor · baroness · conductor · king · queen · follower · empress · emperor

Synonyms

guide · guide · guide · conductor · captain · guide · conductor · conductor · guide · drive wheel · conductor · guide · conductor · chief · conductor · guide · conductor · pack leader · conductor · alpha · guide · conductor · guide · conductor · conductor · guide · chieftain · guide · guide · conductor · conductor · guide · driver · conductor · guide · conductor · commander

Translations (309)

hi मुखिया (one having authority) · sq udhëheqëse (one having authority) · cic minko' (one having authority) · ru шеф (one having authority) · cmn 領導 /领导 (one having authority) · ru гла́вный (one having authority) · sh líder (one having authority) · km មេការ (one having authority) · yi אָנפֿירער (one having authority) · kk көшбасшы (one having authority) · pl przywódca (one having authority) · hu pártvezér (one having authority) · mi kaitaki (one having authority) · pt chefe (one having authority) · pl lider (one having authority) · ta தலை (one having authority) · uz lider (one having authority) · ka გამძღოლი (one having authority) · pl szef (one having authority) · ga treoraí (one having authority) · nv naatʼáanii (one having authority) · mi kaiarataki (one having authority) · hi अगुआ (one having authority) · lv līderis (one having authority) · ota قوجه (one having authority) · fa-ira پیشْوا (one having authority) · oc dirigent (one having authority) · zu umholi (one having authority) · az öndər (one having authority) · el ηγέτης (one having authority) · yi פֿירער (one having authority) · ru глава́ (one having authority) · uz sardor (one having authority) · km មេ (one having authority) · kk жолбасшы (one having authority) · sh vȍđa (one having authority) · it duce (one having authority) · ky лидер (one having authority) · is leiðsögumaður (one having authority) · cmn 領袖 /领袖 (one having authority) · uk вожа́к (dominant animal in a group) · ps قايد (one having authority) · ckb سەرۆک (one having authority) · el αρχηγός (one having authority) · pl wódz (one having authority) · mi ihorei (one having authority) · it editoriale (principal article in a newspaper) · fi pääkirjoitus (principal article in a newspaper) · ko 통솔자 (one having authority) · gv ard-art (principal article in a newspaper) · bg вода́ч (one having authority) · ota رئیس (one having authority) · ur پیشْوا (one having authority) · mi poutoko (one having authority) · tg роҳбар (one having authority) · khb ᦂᦸᧃᧈᦀᦸᧃ (one having authority) · la caput (one having authority) · la ductrīx (one having authority) · ko 지도자 (one having authority) · da leder (one having authority) · xsy 'ayporong (one having authority) · ar زَعِيم (one having authority) · sa नेतृ (one having authority) · ki mũtongoria (one having authority) · he מנהיגה (one having authority) · yue 領袖 /领袖 (one having authority) · pl przewodnik stada (dominant animal in a group) · ky башчы (one having authority) · mi kaitakitaki (one having authority) · ur رَئِیس (one having authority) · lt lyderis (one having authority) · cs velitel (one having authority) · tk lider (one having authority) · sl vodja (one having authority) · mk олук (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · tr kösem (dominant animal in a group) · th ราง (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · kk жетекші (one having authority) · eo gvidanto (one having authority) · ka მეთაური (one having authority) · fr leader (one having authority) · vi lãnh đạo (one having authority) · lo ຜູ້ນຳ (one having authority) · uz rahbar (one having authority) · de Hauptmann (one having authority) · ga ceann (one having authority) · tr rehber (one having authority) · ja 元締め (one having authority) · sk vodca (one having authority) · ur سَرْدار (one having authority) · gd ceannard (one having authority) · de Leittier (dominant animal in a group) · fi johtaja (one having authority) · gl líder (one having authority) · ug رەھبەر (one having authority) · km ប្រធាន (one having authority) · de Leiter (one having authority) · ca dirigent (one having authority) · alt башкараачы (one having authority) · hi सरदार (one having authority) · fur dûs (one having authority) · ko 수령 (one having authority) · et juht (one having authority) · be правады́р (one having authority) · oc líder (one having authority) · ka ბელადი (one having authority) · el κύριο άρθρο (principal article in a newspaper) · am መሪ (one having authority) · bg у́водна ста́тия (principal article in a newspaper) · om geggeessaa (one having authority) · ms pemimpin (one having authority) · lv vadonis (one having authority) · ru водосто́чная труба́ (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · ru вождь (one having authority) · ar عَقِيد (one having authority) · bg вожд (one having authority) · hi नेता (one having authority) · mi kaingārahu (one having authority) · gl xefe (one having authority) · nb leder (one having authority) · ms ketua (one having authority) · yi פֿירערין (one having authority) · hu parancsnok (one having authority) · zu inhloko (one having authority) · be важа́к (dominant animal in a group) · nl leider (one having authority) · ja 長 (one having authority) · ar رَئِيس (one having authority) · unm nikanixink (one having authority) · grc ἡγήτωρ (one having authority) · gl adail (one having authority) · sq udhëheqës (one having authority) · pl artykuł wstępny (principal article in a newspaper) · yue 首領 /首领 (one having authority) · sa शिरस् (one having authority) · ur اِمام (one having authority) · ar قَائِد (one having authority) · mk водач (one having authority) · es caudillo (one having authority) · az öncül (dominant animal in a group) · th ผู้นำ (one having authority) · cmn 頭子 /头子 (one having authority) · cmn 首領 /首领 (one having authority) · ang lādtēow (one having authority) · gl cabedel (one having authority) · ru нача́льник (one having authority) · grc ὄρχαμος (one having authority) · az lider (one having authority) · ro şef (one having authority) · tr öncü (one having authority) · de Chef (one having authority) · ga ceannaire (one having authority) · te నాయకుడు (one having authority) · fr dirigeant (one having authority) · khb ᦕᦴᧉᦂᦸᧃᧈᦀᦸᧃ (one having authority) · de Leitartikel (principal article in a newspaper) · mk воведен напис (principal article in a newspaper) · mi kaihautū (one having authority) · eo estro (one having authority) · hy առաջնորդ (one having authority) · pl edytorial (principal article in a newspaper) · es dirigente (one having authority) · alt јол баштаачы (one having authority) · ru передови́ца (principal article in a newspaper) · cs vedoucí (one having authority) · bg водосто́чна тръба́ (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · mn удирдагч (one having authority) · tk ýolbaşçy (one having authority) · orv вожь (one having authority) · ur رَہْبَر (one having authority) · ti መራሒ (one having authority) · sa नेत्री (one having authority) · pl editorial (principal article in a newspaper) · de Anführerin (one having authority) · ja 統率者 (one having authority) · pl rynna (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · uk лі́дер (one having authority) · tg лидер (one having authority) · ta தலைவன் (one having authority) · be кіраўні́к (one having authority) · fur cjâf (one having authority) · sq prijëse (one having authority) · ur رَہْنُما (one having authority) · to taki (one having authority) · nds Anföhrer (one having authority) · ru ли́дер (one having authority) · gl bren (one having authority) · yi הויפּט (one having authority) · uk керівни́к (one having authority) · be лі́дар (one having authority) · lv vadītājs (one having authority) · ro conducător (one having authority) · fi vetäjä (one having authority) · la dux (one having authority) · fa-ira قائِد (one having authority) · mk лидер (one having authority) · gl coudel (one having authority) · tpi bigman (one having authority) · ta தலைவி (one having authority) · gl dirixente (one having authority) · bn নেতা (one having authority) · yi אָנפֿירערין (one having authority) · lv barvedis (dominant animal in a group) · mi hautū (one having authority) · it capo (one having authority) · tr lider (one having authority) · ps ليډر (one having authority) · ja 頭 (one having authority) · tr önder (one having authority) · sv anförare (one having authority) · ru руководи́тель (one having authority) · my ခေါင်းဆောင် (one having authority) · nb fører (one having authority) · es líder (one having authority) · uk вождь (one having authority) · tt юлбашчы (one having authority) · sq ballëtar (one having authority) · th รางน้ำ (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · fa-ira رَهْبَر (one having authority) · tg пишво (one having authority) · gl líder (dominant animal in a group) · ja リーダー (one having authority) · ko 리더 (one having authority) · sw kiongozi (one having authority) · pau bedul (one having authority) · la prīnceps (one having authority) · fr chef (one having authority) · fi syöksytorvi (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · mi tātāriki (one having authority) · mi kaitātaki (one having authority) · cs vůdce (one having authority) · ps رهبر (one having authority) · sq prijës (one having authority) · bg ли́дер (one having authority) · ltg vaduojs (one having authority) · fa-ira لیدِر (one having authority) · ur لِیڈَر (one having authority) · ps زعيم (one having authority) · ps پېشوا (one having authority) · hi रईस (one having authority) · nl leidster (one having authority) · chr ᏗᏓᏘᏂᏙᎯ (one having authority) · fa-ira رَئیس (one having authority) · sv ledare (one having authority) · qu uma (one having authority) · de Kopf (one having authority) · ka ლიდერი (one having authority) · os фӕтӕг (one having authority) · uz yetakchi (one having authority) · ka ხელმძღვანელი (one having authority) · he מַנְהִיג (one having authority) · mi manukura (one having authority) · de Führer (one having authority) · vo dugan (one having authority) · az başçı (one having authority) · tl pamuno (one having authority) · mi kahika (one having authority) · az rəhbər (one having authority) · pt líder (one having authority) · ja 首領 (one having authority) · th จ่าฝูง (dominant animal in a group) · la ductor (one having authority) · oj ogimaa (one having authority) · cu вождь (one having authority) · la praepositus (one having authority) · zdj mhuu (one having authority) · ca líder (one having authority) · la praefectus (one having authority) · hu vezető (one having authority) · de Führerin (one having authority) · ky жетекчи (one having authority) · da fører (one having authority) · io chefo (one having authority) · th พระยา (one having authority) · ja 指導者 (one having authority) · ar عِرْنِين (one having authority) · ru глава́рь (one having authority) · mn толгойлогч (one having authority) · hu vezér (one having authority) · xag 𐔰𐕀𐔰𐔺𐔱𐕒𐕄𐔰𐔾 (one having authority) · ta தலைவர் (one having authority) · ur قائِد (one having authority) · ka წინამძღოლი (one having authority) · alt башчы (one having authority) · hu vezércikk (principal article in a newspaper) · tk baştutan (one having authority) · de Regenrinne (pipe to conduct water from the roof) · ro lider (one having authority) · zdj mtawalifu (one having authority) · ht dirijan (one having authority) · be во́дца (one having authority) · et liider (one having authority) · nl aanvoerder (one having authority) · mi pā whakawairua (one having authority) · swb mukizi mbeli (one having authority) · cs šéf (one having authority) · grc ἡγεμών (one having authority) · ru вожа́к (dominant animal in a group) · de Anführer (one having authority) · sh во̏ђа (one having authority) · yue 領導 /领导 (one having authority) · ht chèf (one having authority) · tk serdar (one having authority) · lt vadovas (one having authority) · nl aanvoerster (one having authority) · fr chef de file (one having authority) · th หัวหน้า (one having authority) · tr yolbaşçı (one having authority) · sh ли́дер (one having authority)