lede

• enPR: lēd, IPA^(key): /liːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd

From Middle English lede, leode, from Old English lēode ("people, men"; plural of lēod (“person, man”)), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰis (“man, people”). Cognate with Scots lede (“people”), West Frisian lie (“people”), Dutch lieden (“people”), lui(den) (“people”), German Leute (“people”), Norwegian lyd (“people”). More at leod.

• leode, ledd, leude, lued, lud, lude, led
• leid, leyd, leed (Scotland)

lede (plural lede)

1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, singular) A man; person.
   • 2014, original 1650, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 3, page 355:

     And after to Callice hee arriued, Like a noble leed of high degree, […]

2. (chiefly Britain dialectal, Scotland, collective plural) Men; people, folk.
   • 1838, Joseph Bosworth, A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language:

     Sweet, yes sweet is over (beyond) measure
     The marrying for the young lede (people); […]

   • 1876, (translated by) Henry Morley, Shorter English Poems:

     He said, "Gramercy, liege King,
     This is to me a comforting:
     I tell you sickerly
     For to have land or lede
     Or other riches, so God me speed,
     It is too much for me. […] "

   • 2012, Yahoo! Canada Answers - Is Jesus God? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?:

     If Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did.

3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, singular) A people or nation.
4. (chiefly Britain dialectal, plural) Tenements; holdings; possessions.

• leden
• ledish

Mid-20th century neologism from a deliberate misspelling of lead, intended to avoid confusion with its homograph meaning a strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame.[1] Compare hed (“headline”) and dek (“subhead”).

• lead

lede (plural ledes)

1. (chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.

Usage seems mostly confined to the U.S.[2] Originally only journalistic usage that is now so common in general US English that it is no longer labeled as jargon by major US dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster[3] and American Heritage.[4] Noted as “sometimes spelled” in 1959, “often spelled” in 1969, and asserted in the 1979 reprint of a 1974 book (see Citations page). In 1990, William Safire was still able to say that "lede" was jargon not listed in regular dictionaries.[5][1]

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lede.

• Glossary of journalism: Article components

• William Safire (1990), "On Language; (HED) Folo My Lede (UNHED)", New York Times, November 18, 1990, Nytimes.com
• WOTD (2000), "The Maven's Word of the Day: lede", November 28, 2000, www.randomhouse.com
• Notes:

• LEED, deel, dele, leed

lede

1. plural of lid

• IPA^(key): /leːdə/, [ˈleːðə]
• Rhymes: -ðə

From Old Norse leiða.

lede c (singular definite leden, not used in plural form)

1. disgust, distaste, loathing

• lyst

See led (“disgusting”).

lede

1. definite of led
2. plural of led

From Old Norse leiða (“to lead”).

lede (imperative led, present leder, past ledede or ledte, past participle ledet or ledt, present participle ledende)

1. manage, run
2. head, direct
3. lead, guide
4. conduct

• (conduct): ledende (< halvledende, superledende, varmeledende et al.), leder (< halvleder, superleder et al.)

From Old Norse leita (“seek, search”)

lede (imperative led, infinitive at lede, present tense leder, past tense ledte, perfect tense har ledt)

1. look
2. search

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːdə

lede

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of lijden

• deel, dele, edel, leed

lede

1. second-person plural imperative of ler

• Rhymes: -ɛde

lede

1. third-person singular indicative present of ledere

lêde

1. dative singular of lêet

lede (plural ledes)

1. Alternative form of leod

lede

1. lead

From Old Norse leiða, and Danish lede

lede (imperative led, present tense leder, passive ledes, simple past and past participle leda or ledet, present participle ledende)

1. to lead
2. to guide

• avlede
• innlede
• ledelse
• ledning

• leie (Nynorsk)

• “lede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

lede

1. Second-person plural (vós) affirmative imperative of ler

From the nounal use (masculine inflection) of adjective led (“evil”), in the more original synonym den lede frestaren (“the evil tempter”)

lede

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of led.

lede c

1. the evil one, the loathsome or disgusting one; the devil, Satan