different between leader vs sovereign

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)

1. any person that leads or directs
   1. one who goes first

   2. one having authority to direct

      Synonyms: chief, chieftain, commander

   3. 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

   4. a person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.

   5. (music) a performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra

      Synonym: conductor

   6. (music, Britain) the first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster
3. an animal that leads
   1. the dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions

      Synonyms: alpha, pack leader

   2. an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
   3. Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.

      Antonym: wheeler

4. someone or something that leads or conducts

   (person that leads or conducts): Synonyms: guide, conductor

   1. (botany) a fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant
   2. a pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground
   3. (Britain) the first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story
   4. (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
   5. 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
   6. (marketing) a loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price
   7. (printing) a type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face
   8. (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
   9. (fishing) a net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
   10. (mining) a branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one
   11. (nautical) a block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places
   12. A blank introductory portion of tape or film to assist with loading and playback.
   13. (engineering) the drive wheel in any kind of machinery

       Synonyms: driver, drive wheel

   14. (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)

1. 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)

1. leader (chief; one in front)

Anagrams

• lederà

Spanish

Noun

leader m or f (plural leaderes)

1. Alternative form of líder

English

Alternative forms

• soveraign, soveraigne (archaic)
• sovran (archaic)
• sovring (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *super?nus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. See also suzerain, foreign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?v.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?v(?)??n/
• Hyphenation: sov?e?reign

Adjective

sovereign (comparative more sovereign, superlative most sovereign)

1. Exercising power of rule.

2. Exceptional in quality.

3. (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze […]

   • a sovereign remedy

   • Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.

4. Having supreme, ultimate power.

   Gentlemen, may I introduce the Sovereign, Her Royal Highness, and Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Elizabeth of Vicron.
5. Princely; royal.
   • c1610, William Shakespeare, A Winters Tale, V.i:

     You pity not the state, nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name.

6. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.

Synonyms

• autonomous
• supreme

Derived terms

• sovereignly
• sovereign citizen
• sovereign state

Translations

Noun

sovereign (plural sovereigns)

1. A monarch; the ruler of a country.
   • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

     No question is to be made but that the bed of the Missisippi[sic] belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.

2. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
3. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
4. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
5. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
6. (Britain, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
   • 2004, December 11, "Birkenhead, Merseyside" BBC Voices recording (0:06:52)

     No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.

Hyponyms

• (monarch): king, queen

Derived terms

• sovereignty

Descendants

• ? Irish: sabhran
• ? Russian: ??????? (soveren)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: sòbharan
• ? Welsh: sofren

Translations

See also

• half sovereign

Verb

sovereign (third-person singular simple present sovereigns, present participle sovereigning, simple past and past participle sovereigned)

1. (transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.

Anagrams

• Rovignese, virogenes