Definitions for leader

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leader lead·er

Spelling: [lee-der]

IPA: /ˈli dər/

Leader is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in leader (adeelr).

Definitions for leader

noun

1. a person or thing that leads.
2. a guiding or directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group.
3. Music. a conductor or director, as of an orchestra, band, or chorus. the player at the head of the first violins in an orchestra, the principal cornetist in a band, or the principal soprano in a chorus, to whom any incidental solos are usually assigned.
4. a featured article of trade, especially one offered at a low price to attract customers. Compare loss leader.
5. Journalism. leading article (def 1). Also called leading article. British. the principal editorial in a newspaper.
6. 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. Compare trailer (def 6).
7. Angling. a length of nylon, silkworm gut, wire, or the like, to which the lure or hook is attached. the net used to direct fish into a weir, pound, etc.
8. a pipe for conveying rain water downward, as from a roof; downspout.
9. a horse harnessed at the front of a team.
10. leaders, Printing. a row of dots or a short line to lead the eye across a space.
11. Nautical. lead1 (def 40b).
12. a duct for conveying warm air from a hot-air furnace to a register or stack.
13. Mining. a thin vein of ore connected with a large vein.

Origin of leader

1250-1300; Middle English leder(e). See lead¹, -er¹

Examples for leader

Mr. Gladstone was hailed everywhere as the leader of the Liberal party.

He affected an anchorman finesse in apologizing for “past mistakes” as a Ku Klux Klan leader.

Such was the leader whom Mr. Gladstone had faithfully followed for many years.

The seedlings of his potential greatness as a leader are sprinkled throughout it.

Their leader, Njie, still going by “Dave” during the operation, would stay a safe distance away until the State House was secure.

Not until he had secured such information did the leader move.

On the way the leader explained his system briefly and clearly.

Jennie kept his parliamentary vestments for her son, apparently instilling in Winston the sense that he would be a leader.

The leader had gone with Joe Clune straight for the front car.

“Poor Steve Scalise is getting a bad rap,” Knight, a long-time aide to former KKK leader David Duke, told The Daily Beast.