Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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adj
Initialism of live end dead end.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Qualifier: acoustics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A man; a person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: journalism, media
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Synonyms: intro
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
the introductory section of a story
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lead, lead-in
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: section, subdivision
History
From Middle English lede, leode (“man; human being, person; lord, prince; God; sir; group, kind; race; a people, nation; human race; land, real property”) [and other forms], from three closely related words: * Old English lēod (“man; chief, leader; (poetic) prince; a people, people group; nation”); * Old English lēoda (“man; person; native of a country”), related to lēod; and * Old English lēode (“men; people; the people of a country”), originally the plural of lēod. Lēod is inherited from Proto-West Germanic *liudi, from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“man; person; men; people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1léwdhis (“man, people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1lewdh- (“to grow; people”). Doublet of leud. Cognates The English word is cognate with Dutch lieden (“people”), lui(den) (“people”), German Leute (“people”), Norwegian lyd (“people”), Polish lud (“people”), Russian люди (ljudi, “people”), West Frisian lie (“people”).
A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word lead which may actually appear in the text of an article. Compare dek (“subhead”) (modified from deck) and hed (“headline”) (from head).
See lead.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
