leader meaning
EN
[ˈliː.də(ɹ)] [ˈliːdɚ] [-iːdə(r)] 
US FR leader 
- NounPLleadersSUF-er
- Any person that leads or directs.
- 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.
- Follow the leader.
- We elected her team leader.
- Leader of the House of Commons
- Senate Majority Leader
- The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.
- 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.
- 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.
- Something that leads or conducts.
- A strong central leader may result in essentially horizontal branches resembling a "telephone pole."
- 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
- Any person that leads or directs.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.
- Director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, Mrs. Krug was a national leader in several legal cases that rose to the Supreme Court.
- So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The abbot is considered a tulku by Tibetans and called a living Buddha in Chinese — an especially revered figure who is believed to be the essence of a prominent religious leader.
- Finally, the accommodating new governor needs to make certain he does not overaccommodate Albany’s leaders.
- Clearly, empathy is a Scriptural concept that Christians can put to work in becoming better leaders.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of leader in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Agent nouns
- Countable nouns
- Morphemes
- fr leader
- en leaders
- fr leaders
- en leadership
- fr leadership
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "leader" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and an agent noun.