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leader is a noun:
- Any person or thing that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
- One who goes first.
"Follow the leader." - One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
"We elected her team leader." - One who leads a political party or group of elected party members, as Leader of the House of Commons or Senate Majority Leader
- A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
"The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county." - 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; a conductor.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team; one of the forward pair of horses.
- 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; a conductor.
- The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- A section of line between the main fly line and the snell, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
- A piece of blank tape or film at the beginning or end of a reel to allow the material to the threaded onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector.
- A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- 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.
- A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is leader?
- Noun usage: Follow the leader.
- Noun usage: We elected her team leader.
- Noun usage: The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of leader are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of leader, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
