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ledes

ledes is the plural of lede.

Meaning of lede

Noun (1)

lede (plural lede)

  1. (obsolete) 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; […]p. 1544, “fflodden ffeilde”, in John W[esley] Hales, Frederick J[ames] Furnivall, [Francis James] Child, W[illiam] Chappell, et al., editors, Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances...

Noun (2)

lede (plural ledes)

  1. (US) 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.1979, J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production, 2nd edition, Dubuque, Iowa: W[illiam] C. Brown, →ISBN, page 90
    Synonyms:
    intro

Questions about ledes

What is ledes the plural of?
Ledes is the plural of lede.

Words near ledes in the dictionary

  1. lederhosed
  2. lederhosen
  3. lederhosened
  4. Lederman
  5. Ledermans
  6. ledes
  7. Ledesma
  8. Ledesmas
  9. Ledet
  10. Ledets
  11. Ledezma

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