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arch-leader

arch-leader is the alternative form of archleader.

Meaning of archleader

Noun

archleader (plural archleaders)

  1. (rare) The foremost leader.
    • It was his influence that probed the Casale trial to its depths of infamy, that insisted on the Mafia and its archleader, Palizzolo, being brought to justice. To him and his energy and inflexible sense of duty it is largely due that reform is no longer in the air, but on the statute-book, that a...1821, The North American Review, O. Everett, page 253

Forms of arch-leader

pluralarch-leaders

Questions about arch-leader

What is arch-leader the alternative form of?
Arch-leader is the alternative form of archleader.

Words near arch-leader in the dictionary

  1. arch-heresies
  2. arch-heresy
  3. arch-heretic
  4. arch-heretical
  5. arch-heretics
  6. arch-leader
  7. arch-leaders
  8. arch-lute
  9. arch-lutes
  10. arch-murderer
  11. arch-murderers

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