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archleader

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈliː.dɚ/US/ɑɹt͡ʃˈlidɚ/

archleader noun: the foremost leader.

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
    • Arrived in London, Tom Moore very soon indeed became the favourite of the fashionables, and the pet of the pettieoate. It mattered little in his instance, even in those preposterous days when H. K, H. George Prince of Wales was the example and the archleader of that old-world Snobbism Rampant, that...1864, Charles Kent, Footprints on the Road, Chapman and Hall, page 344

Examples of archleader in a sentence

  • 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.1821, The North American Review, O. Everett, page 253:
  • George Prince of Wales was the example and the archleader of that old-world Snobbism Rampant, that the young Irish poet had a father over in Dublin, who was a small shopkeeper.1864, Charles Kent, Footprints on the Road, Chapman and Hall, page 344:

Forms of archleader

pluralarchleaders
alternative formarch-leader

Origin of archleader

From arch- + leader.

Questions about archleader

What does archleader mean?
Archleader means the foremost leader.
How do you use archleader in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is archleader?
Archleader is a noun.
How do you pronounce archleader?
Archleader is pronounced /ɑɹt͡ʃˈliː.dɚ/.
What is the plural of archleader?
The plural of archleader is archleaders.

Words near archleader in the dictionary

  1. archivy
  2. Archizoic
  3. Archiș
  4. archking
  5. archkings
  6. archleader
  7. archleaders
  8. archlector
  9. archlectors
  10. archless
  11. archlet

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