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 Definitions of Leader  [ˈli dər]  

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Definition of 'Leader' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) leader
a person or thing that leads.

2.  leader
a guiding or directing head, as of an army or political group.

3.  leader
the principal musical performer in a group.

4.  leader
a featured article of trade, esp. one offered at a low price to attract customers.

5.  leader
Brit. a newspaper editorial.

6.  leader
blank film or tape at the beginning of a length of film or magnetic tape, used for threading a motion-picture camera, tape recorder, etc.

7.  leader
a length of line or wire to which a fishing lure or hook is attached.

8.  leader
a horse harnessed at the front of a team.

9.  leader
leaders, a row of dots or a short line to lead a reader's eye across a page.

Etymology:  (1250–1300)

Definition of 'Leader' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) leader
a person who rules or guides or inspires others

2. (noun) drawing card, loss leader, leader
a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers


Definition of 'Leader' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) leader
sb who leads a group or activity
the country's new leader; a great leader

2.  leader
sb who is first in a competition, election, etc.
the leader in the race for the White House; a world leader in the development of technology


Definition of 'Leader' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Leader
one who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor

2. (noun) Leader
one who goes first

3. (noun) Leader
one having authority to direct; a chief; a commander

4. (noun) Leader
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

5. (noun) Leader
a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places

6. (noun) Leader
the principal wheel in any kind of machinery

7. (noun) Leader
a horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses

8. (noun) Leader
a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor

9. (noun) Leader
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

10. (noun) Leader
a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one

11. (noun) Leader
the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article

12. (noun) Leader
a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face

13. (noun) Leader
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


Translation of 'Leader' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a person who is in front or goes first
The fourth runner is several miles behind the leaders.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: voorloper Arabic flag Arabic: المُتَسابِق الذي في المُق Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: водач
Brazilian flag Brazilian: líder Czech flag Czech: vedoucí závodník, -ice German flag German: der/die Erste
Danish flag Danish: leder; førende person Greek flag Greek: προπορευόμενος Spanish flag Spanish: líder
Estonian flag Estonian: liider Farsi flag Farsi: پیشگام Finnish flag Finnish: johtaja
French flag French: meneur/-euse Hebrew flag Hebrew: מַנהִיג Hindi flag Hindi: नेता
Croatian flag Croatian: predvodnik Hungarian flag Hungarian: vezető Indonesian flag Indonesian: orang terdepan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: forystumaður, e-r sem er Italian flag Italian: leader, chi e' in testa Japanese flag Japanese: 先頭にある者
Korean flag Korean: 선도자 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: lyderis, vedlys Latvian flag Latvian: līderis
Malay flag Malay: yang berada di hadapan se Dutch flag Dutch: koploper Norwegian flag Norwegian: leder, førstemann
Polish flag Polish: prowadzący, lider Persian flag Persian: پیشگام Pashto flag Pashto: لارښود،لومړې كس
Portuguese flag Portuguese: o primeiro Romanian flag Romanian: lider Russian flag Russian: лидер
Slovak flag Slovak: vedúci pretekár, -ka Slovenian flag Slovenian: vodilni Serbian flag Serbian: vođa
Swedish flag Swedish: ledare Thai flag Thai: คนนำ Turkish flag Turkish: lider, birinci
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 領先者 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: лідер Urdu flag Urdu: قائد، لیڈر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: người dẫn đầu Chinese flag Chinese: 领先者

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