Definition of leader

• n. - One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
• n. - One who goes first.
• n. - One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
• 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.
• n. - A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
• n. - The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
• n. - A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
• n. - A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
• 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.
• n. - A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
• n. - The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
• n. - A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
• 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.