leader – English noun declension

English noun forms of leader

Noun: leader
Singularleader
Pluralleaders

Sample Sentences

  • In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance. [2012 January 26, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:]
  • Follow the leader.
  • We elected her team leader.
  • America needs not only an administrator, but a leader - a pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the high road that will avoid the bottomless morass of crass materialism that has engulfed so many of the great civilizations of the past. [1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:]
  • On the other hand, I must think of Korea and, particularly, of the three million enslaved Koreans in the North. My obligation as a leader of the Korean people is to achieve unification of our country by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary. [1978, Richard Nixon, quoting Syngman Rhee, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:]
  • The leader is the man who knows the way of the overlords but identifies with the life of the oppressed. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 195:]
  • Leader of the House of Commons
  • Senate Majority Leader
  • The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
  • 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. [1987, Sylvia A. Johnson with Alice Aamodt, Wolf Pack: Tracking Wolves in the Wild, page 41:]
  • Still there are many passages in his [Donne's] writings, where it is plain that he forgot to pull in his leaders; and they gallop away with him at times over hill and dale, over ploughed land and waste. [1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction of Righteousness”, in The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons with Notes:]
  • How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.” [1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:]
  • A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole." [1975, David J. De Laubenfels, Mapping the world's vegetation: regionalization of formations and flora, page 82:]
  • If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. Do not rewind so much that the leader disappears into the cassette. [2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:]
  • The leader only runs three seconds, but it acts like a drop curtain in a theater. [1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 15:]
  • when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower [1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *laidī
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
4. Proto-Italic *-āzios
5. Latin -āriusnom.
6. Latin -āriusbor.
7. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
9. Proto-West Germanic *laid
10. ▲
11. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
12. Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī
13. Old English lǣdere
14. Middle English ledere
15. English leader
16. Inherited from Middle English ledere, from Old English lǣdere, from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī, from *laidī (“leading, leadership”) + *-ārī, or from *laid (“leading”) + *-ārī. By surface analysis, lead + -er. Cognate with Scots leader (“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”). See: Dutch Nouns 'leider', German Nouns 'Leiter', Danish Nouns 'leder', Swedish Nouns 'ledare', Icelandic Nouns 'leiðari'.

Verbs referencing "leader"

French Nouns leader, Asturian Nouns líder, Catalan Nouns líder, Slovak Nouns líder, Romanian Nouns lider, Bulgarian Nouns лидер, Russian Nouns лидер, Ukrainian Nouns лідер, Belarusan Nouns лідар, Belarusan Nouns лідэр.