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band leader

band leader is the alternative form of bandleader.

Meaning of bandleader

Noun

bandleader (plural bandleaders)

  1. A musician who conducts or leads a band of musicians.
    • Before Brooklyn became the World Historical Hipster Hub, there were the Hepsters of Harlem. And well before there was an Urban Dictionary for every last nuance of non-standard English, the bandleader and amateur linguist Cab Calloway cataloged some of the unique speech of the 1930s and ’40s in his...2010 July 9, J. David Goodman, “Of Local History and Hepcats”, in New York Times City Room, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2025
    Synonyms:
    conductor

Forms of band leader

pluralband leaders

Questions about band leader

What is band leader the alternative form of?
Band leader is the alternative form of bandleader.

Words near band leader in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: band leader (page history and authors); bandleader (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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