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leader

noun
/ˈliː.də(ɹ)/UK/ˈli.dɚ/CA

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *laidī Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laid ▲ Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī Old English lǣdere Middle English leder English leader Inherited from Middle English leder, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī, from *laidī (“leading, leadership”) + *-ārī, or from *laid (“leading”) + *-ārī. By surface analysis, 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”).

  1. derived from leiðari — “leader, conductor”
  2. derived from ledare — “leader, conductor, director”
  3. derived from leder — “leader, manager”
  4. derived from Leiter — “leader, conductor, manager”
  5. derived from leider — “leader”
  6. derived from lieder — “leader”
  7. derived from ledar
  8. derived from *laidijārī✻
  9. derived from lǣdere — “leader”
  10. derived from *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laid ▲ Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī Old English lǣdere Middle English leder English leader Inherited from Middle English leder✻
  11. derived from -āriusbor
  12. derived from *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom✻
  13. derived from *laidī Proto-Indo-European *-yósder✻

Definitions

  1. Any person who leads or directs.

  2. An animal that leads.

    • The gesture of licking and nipping a leader's muzzle is similar to the food-begging behavior of wolf pups and may be related to it.

  3. Someone or something that leads or conducts.

    • A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.

    2. A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.

    3. A town in the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada,…

      A town in the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.

    4. A populated place in Adams County, Colorado, United States.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at leader. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at leader. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at leader

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA