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4-letter words (3 found)

DELE,LEDE,LEED,

3-letter words (6 found)

DEE,DEL,EEL,ELD,LED,LEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

DE,ED,EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of lede

lede

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lēd, IPA(key): /liːd/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /lid/
  • Homophones: lead, lied, leed
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

lede (plural lede)

  1. (obsolete) A man; a person.
Usage notes
  • In modern English, the word is only found as a conscious archaism.
Alternative forms
  • leed, leod
Related terms
  • leden

Etymology 2

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).

Noun

lede (plural ledes)

  2. (chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in. [from mid 20th c.]
    Synonym: intro
Usage notes
  • The word, which has entered ordinary usage, was originally journalistic jargon. In 1990, the American author and journalist William Safire (1929–2009) was still able to say: “You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. […] Will lede break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? […] To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing […] But it has earned its place as a variant spelling, soon to overtake the original spelling for the beginning of a news article.”
Derived terms
  • bury the lede
  • lede to kum
  • nulede
Translations

See also

  • Glossary of journalism: Article components

Etymology 3

See lead.

Verb

lede

  1. Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).

References

Further reading

  • lead paragraph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “lede”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “lede” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN; reproduced on TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

Anagrams

  • Deel, LEED, deel, dele, leed

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪə.də/

Noun

lede

  1. plural of lid

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛdɛ]

Noun

lede

  1. vocative singular of led

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleːðə/, [ˈle̝ːð̩], [ˈle̝ːð̩˕˗ˠ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leiða (“to lead”), from Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to lead”), cognate with English lead, German leiten. It is a causative of the verb *līþaną (“to go, pass”).

Verb

lede (past tense ledede or ledte, past participle ledet or ledt)

  1. to manage, run
  2. to head, direct
  3. to lead, guide
  4. to conduct
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse leita (“to seek, search”), from Proto-Germanic *wlaitōną, cognate with Old English wlātian (“to look upon”), Gothic 𐍅𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽 (wlaitōn, “to look around”).

Verb

lede (past tense ledte, past participle ledt)

  1. to look, search for
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Norse leiða, derived from the adjective Old Norse leiðr (Danish led (“disgusting”)).

Noun

lede c (singular definite leden, not used in plural form)

  1. disgust, distaste, loathing
Declension
Antonyms
  • lyst

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

lede

  1. definite of led
  2. plural of led

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːdə

Verb

lede

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of lijden

Anagrams

  • deel, dele, edel, leed

Galician

Verb

lede

  1. second-person plural imperative of ler

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.de/
  • Rhymes: -ɛde
  • Hyphenation: lè‧de

Verb

lede

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ledere

Middle Dutch

Noun

lêde

  1. dative singular of lêet

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English lēode (“people, men”), plural of lēod, from Proto-West Germanic *liudī, plural of *liud(i), from Proto-Germanic *liudīz, plural of *liudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeyes, plural of *h₁léwdʰis.

Akin to Old Frisian liod, Old Saxon liud, Old Norse ljóðr, lýðr, Old High German liut, Dutch lieden.

Alternative forms

  • led, leed, leede, leyde, leod, leode, leude, lud, lude, lued, lyde
  • (early) leoda, leodæ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleːd(ə)/

Noun

lede (plural ledes or lede or (early) leden) (poetic)

  1. A (male) human; a man:
    1. A vassal or subject.
    2. A servant or retainer.
    3. A ruler; one with governing authority.
  2. (collectively) People, folk.
  3. A nation; a people.
  4. A race or stock; one's kindred.
  5. Real estate; owned land.
Descendants
  • English: lede (obsolete)
  • Scots: leid
References
  • “lẹ̄d(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

lede

  1. alternative form of led (“lead”)

Etymology 3

Noun

lede

  1. alternative form of leden (“language”)

Etymology 4

Verb

lede

  1. alternative form of leden (“to lead”)
    • Perle Section 15. Anonymous 15th century.
      A blysful lyf þou says I lede;

Etymology 5

Verb

lede

  1. alternative form of leden (“to cover in lead”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse leiða, and Danish lede.

Verb

lede (imperative led, present tense leder, passive ledes, simple past and past participle leda or ledet, present participle ledende)

  1. to lead
  2. to guide

Derived terms

  • avlede
  • innlede
  • ledelse
  • ledning

See also

  • leie (Nynorsk)

References

  • “lede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

lede

  1. second-person plural imperative of ler

Swedish

Etymology

From the nominal use (masculine inflection) of adjective led (“loathsome”), in the more original synonym den lede frestaren (“the loathsome tempter”).

Adjective

lede

  1. definite natural masculine singular of led

Noun

lede c

  1. the evil one, the loathsome or disgusting one; the devil, Satan

Usage notes

Most commonly as den lede.

See also

  • lede fi

Source: wiktionary.org