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leader
English
Etymology
From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English l?dere (“leader”), equivalent to lead +? -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“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”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?li?.d?(?)/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /?lid?/
- Homophones: liter, litre
- Rhymes: -i?d?(?)
- Homophone: lieder
Noun
leader (plural leaders)
- any person that leads or directs
- one who goes first
- one having authority to direct
- Synonyms: chief, chieftain, commander
- 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
- a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- (music) a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra
- Synonym: conductor
- (music, Britain) the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster
- one who goes first
- an animal that leads
- the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions
- Synonyms: alpha, pack leader
- an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- Antonym: wheeler
- the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions
- someone or something that leads or conducts
- (person that leads or conducts): Synonyms: guide, conductor
- (botany) a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant
- a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground
- (Britain) the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story
- (fishing) 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
- 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
- (marketing) a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price
- (printing) a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face
- (printing, in the plural) 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
- (fishing) a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- (mining) a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one
- (nautical) a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places
- A blank introductory portion of tape or film to assist with loading and playback.
- (engineering) the drive wheel in any kind of machinery
- Synonyms: driver, drive wheel
- (meteorology) the path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:leader.
Antonyms
- follower
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
References
- leader at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- dealer, leared, red ale, redeal, relade, relead
French
Alternative forms
- leadeur
Etymology
Borrowed from English leader.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.dœ?/
Noun
leader m (plural leaders)
- leader
Synonyms
- chef
- dirigeant
Descendants
- Turkish: lider
Further reading
- “leader” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dealer
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English leader.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li.der/
- Hyphenation: lea?der
Noun
leader m or f (invariable)
- leader (chief; one in front)
Anagrams
- lederà
Spanish
Noun
leader m or f (plural leaderes)
- Alternative form of líder
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shepherd
English
Etymology
From Middle English schepherde, from Old English s??aphierde, a compound of s??ap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep +? herd (“herder”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???p?d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p?d/
- Hyphenation: shep?herd
Noun
shepherd (plural shepherds, feminine shepherdess)
- A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- (figuratively) Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
- 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James), Psalms 23:1
- The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James), Psalms 23:1
- (figuratively) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
- (poetic) A swain; a rustic male lover.
Synonyms
- (one who tends sheep): pastor (now rare), sheepherder
Coordinate terms
- shepherdess
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
shepherd (third-person singular simple present shepherds, present participle shepherding, simple past and past participle shepherded)
- (transitive) To watch over; to guide.
- (transitive, Australian rules football) To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.
Translations
shepherd From the web:
- what shepherd means
- what shepherds do
- what shepherds don't shed
- what shepherd dog breeds
- what shepherds constantly hear crossword
- what's shepherd's pie
- what's shepherd's pie made with
- what shepherd's staff
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