LEDE
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lede¹
- /liːd/ UK
- /lid/ US
Sounds like lead, lied, leed · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
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”).
noun lede · leed · leod
- A man; a person. & after to callice hee [Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey] arriued, / like a noble Leed of high degree, / & then to Turwin soone he hyed, / there he thought to haue found King Henery; […]
lede²
- /liːd/ UK
- /lid/ US
Sounds like lead, lied, leed · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
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 ledes
- The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in. Readers usually see the lead picture and read its caption first, before reading the lede of the article, so the article lede should not be a repetition of the caption.
lede³
- /liːd/ UK
- /lid/ US
Sounds like lead, lied, leed · Rhymes with -iːd
Where it comes from
See lead.
verb
- Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).lead
LEDE⁴
adjective
- Initialism of live end dead end.live end dead end
