leaders
part of speech
noun (plural of «leader»: a leader, leaders)
meaning for a pupil
1) People who lead or are in charge of a group, a team, a country or an organisation. tree →
2) People or teams that are winning or in first place in a race or competition. tree →
3) Companies or things that are the best or most important in their area (market leaders). tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in civics and history (world leaders), sport (the leaders of the league), school (team leaders, group leaders). Tells the reader who is in charge or who is ahead. Phrases: «world leaders», «group leaders», «follow the leader», «the race leaders».
examples
- World leaders met to talk about the climate. tree →
- The group leaders gave out the maps. tree →
- The leaders of the race are on the last lap. tree →
- Good leaders listen to their team. tree →
- Our school has student leaders in every class. tree →
- The two club leaders shook hands. tree →
- Scouts have adult leaders who help them. tree →
- Seven leaders were now chosen, each at the head of a separate detachment of troops. tree →
note
Singular «leader». Related: «lead» (verb), «leadership» (the job or skill of leading). Possessive: one leader's, many leaders'.
In the corpora
- An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and representatives; candidates send leaflets to explain their promises.
- Elephants have excellent memories: old female leaders remember distant water in droughts and recognise friends after many years.
- "Plausible deniability" means an arrangement that lets leaders deny they knew about something.
- Some people became potters, builders, priests or leaders, and villages grew into towns.
- Instead they made a republic, where citizens elected leaders for one year at a time.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «leaders» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.