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▸ noun: One who goes first.
▸ noun: One having authority to direct.
▸ noun: One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
▸ noun: A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
▸ noun: (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
▸ noun: (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
▸ noun: An animal that leads.
▸ noun: The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
▸ noun: an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs
▸ noun: Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
▸ noun: Someone or something that leads or conducts.
▸ noun: (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
▸ noun: A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
▸ noun: (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (film, printing) 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.
▸ noun: (cinematography, dated) An intertitle.
▸ noun: (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
▸ noun: (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
▸ noun: (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
▸ noun: (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
▸ noun: (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
▸ noun: (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
▸ noun: A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.
▸ noun: A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.
▸ noun: A town in the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.
▸ noun: A locality in Adams County, Colorado, United States.
Similar:
loss leader,
drawing card,
leadership,
coleader,
innovator,
facilitator,
president,
ringleader,
member,
captain,
more...
Opposite:
Types:
authoritarian,
democratic,
laissez-faire,
transformational,
transactional,
servant,
charismatic,
autocratic,
more...
Phrases:
Adjectives:
great,
political,
military,
religious,
spiritual,
charismatic,
national,
former,
strong,
soviet,
prominent
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