Definitions for the word "leader" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
One who goes first.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
1 a person or thing that leads. B person followed by others. 2 principal player in a music group or of the first violins in an orchestra. 3 = *leading article. 4 shoot of a plant at the apex of a stem or of the main branch. leadership n.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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