| lathee | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathi |
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| lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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| (noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
| (noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
| lathi | (noun) club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India | Synonyms: lathee |
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| laticifer | (noun) a plant duct containing latex | - |
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| latitude | (noun) scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction | - |
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| (noun) the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself | - |
| (noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: line of latitude, parallel, parallel of latitude |
| (noun) freedom from normal restraints in conduct | - |
| latitudinarian | (noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
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| latke | (noun) made of grated potato and egg with a little flour | Synonyms: potato pancake |
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| latria | (noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: adoration |
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| latrine | (noun) a public toilet in a military area | - |
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| lats | (noun) the basic unit of money in Latvia | - |
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| latte | (noun) strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk | Synonyms: caffe latte |
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| latten | (noun) brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils | - |
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| latter | (noun) the second of two or the second mentioned of two | - |
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| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| laudability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudableness, praiseworthiness |
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| laudableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, praiseworthiness |
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| laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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| laudator | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, lauder |
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| lauder | (noun) someone who communicates high praise | Synonyms: extoller, laudator |
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| laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
| (noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
| laugher | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
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| (noun) a person who is laughing or who laughs easily | - |
| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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| (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
| lauhala | (noun) Polynesian screw pine | Synonyms: Pandanus tectorius, textile screw pine |
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| launce | (noun) very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches | Synonyms: sand eel, sand lance, sand launce |
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| launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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| (noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
| launcher | (noun) armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket | Synonyms: rocket launcher |
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| (noun) a device that launches aircraft from a warship | Synonyms: catapult |
| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| launchpad | (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, pad |
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| launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| laundress | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundrywoman, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| laundry | (noun) workplace where clothes are washed and ironed | - |
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| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: wash, washables, washing |
| laundryman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: washerman |
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| laundrywoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| laureate | (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
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| laurel | (noun) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory | Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel wreath |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family | - |
| laurels | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, honour |
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| (noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| laurelwood | (noun) tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree |
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| lav | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| lava | (noun) rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface | - |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| lavalava | (noun) a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans) | - |
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| lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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| lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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| lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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| lavation | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: wash, washing |
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| lavatory | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
| (noun) a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it | Synonyms: flush toilet |
| lavender | (noun) a pale purple color | - |
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| (noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated | - |
| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| law | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | Synonyms: practice of law |
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| (noun) a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | Synonyms: natural law |
| (noun) a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | Synonyms: law of nature |
| (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy |
| (noun) legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | - |
| (noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: jurisprudence |
| (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, police, police force |
| lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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| lawcourt | (noun) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | Synonyms: court of justice, court of law, law court |
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| lawfulness | (noun) the quality of conforming to law | - |
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| lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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| lawlessness | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: outlawry |
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| (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: anarchy |
| lawmaker | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawgiver |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| lawman | (noun) an officer of the law | Synonyms: law officer, peace officer |
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| lawn | (noun) a field of cultivated and mowed grass | - |
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| lawrencium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium | Synonyms: atomic number 103, Lr |
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| lawsuit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, suit |
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| lawyer | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: attorney |
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| lawyerbush | (noun) stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth | Synonyms: bush lawyer, lawyer bush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides |
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| laxation | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: loosening |
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| (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, shitting |
| laxative | (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
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| laxity | (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxness, remissness, slackness |
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| (noun) the condition of being physiologically lax | Synonyms: laxness |
| laxness | (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, remissness, slackness |
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| (noun) the condition of being physiologically lax | Synonyms: laxity |
| lay | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: ballad |
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| (noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: ballad |
| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| layby | (noun) designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily | Synonyms: lay-by, pull-off, rest area, rest stop |
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| layer | (noun) thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells | - |
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| (noun) a hen that lays eggs | - |
| (noun) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | Synonyms: bed |
| (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: level, stratum |
| (noun) a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another | - |
| layette | (noun) kit consisting of a complete outfit (clothing and accessories) for a new baby | - |
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| laying | (noun) the production of eggs (especially in birds) | Synonyms: egg laying |
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| layman | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layperson, secular |
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| layoff | (noun) the act of laying off an employee or a work force | - |
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| layout | (noun) the act of laying out (as by making plans for something) | - |
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| (noun) a plan or design of something that is laid out | - |
| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| layperson | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, secular |
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| layup | (noun) a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) | Synonyms: lay-up |
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| lazar | (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: leper |
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| lazaret | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazarette | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| laziness | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, sloth |
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| (noun) relaxed and easy activity | - |
| (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: indolence |
| lazuli | (noun) an azure blue semiprecious stone | Synonyms: lapis lazuli |
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| lazuline | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, cerulean, sapphire, sky-blue |
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| lazybones | (noun) a lazy person | - |
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| lb | (noun) 16 ounces avoirdupois | Synonyms: pound |
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| lcm | (noun) the smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers | Synonyms: least common multiple, lowest common multiple |
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| lea | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pasture, pasture land, pastureland |
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| (noun) a unit of length of thread or yarn | - |
| leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| lead | (noun) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge | - |
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| (noun) a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead') | - |
| (noun) a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire | Synonyms: booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: leading |
| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: leash, tether |
| (noun) the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: spark advance |
| (noun) an advantage held by a competitor in a race | - |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: track, trail |
| (noun) a news story of major importance | Synonyms: lead story |
| (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lede |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: principal, star |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning | - |
| (noun) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) | - |
| (noun) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil | Synonyms: pencil lead |
| (noun) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey | Synonyms: atomic number 82, Pb |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |