different between example vs leadership

English

Etymology

From Middle English exaumple, example, from Old French essample (French exemple), from Latin exemplum (“a sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out (as a sample)”), from exim? (“take out”), from ex (“out”) + em? (“buy; acquire”); see exempt. Displaced native Middle English bisne, forbus, forbusen from Old English b?sen, and Middle English byspel from Old English b?spell. Doublet of exemplum and sample.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??mpl?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???z??mp?/
• (General Australian, US, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /???zæmpl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???zæmpl?/
• Rhymes: -??mp?l, -æmp?l
• Hyphenation: ex?am?ple

Noun

example (plural examples)

1. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
2. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
3. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
4. A person punished as a warning to others.
5. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
6. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.

Synonyms

• e.g.
• See also Thesaurus:model
• See also Thesaurus:exemplar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• exemplar
• model
• pattern
• quotation
• template

Verb

example (third-person singular simple present examples, present participle exampling, simple past and past participle exampled)

1. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

Further reading

• example in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• example in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• exempla

English

Etymology

From leader +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lid???p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?li?d???p/
• Hyphenation: lead?er?ship

Noun

leadership (countable and uncountable, plural leaderships)

1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
2. A group of leaders.
3. The office or status of a leader.

Translations

Anagrams

• dealership, perhalides, rape shield

French

Alternative forms

• leadeurship

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.dœ?.?ip/

Noun

leadership m (plural leaderships)

1. leadership (the characteristics of leading by the leader)

   Synonym: chefferie

Further reading

• “leadership” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

leadership f (invariable)

1. leadership