lede

Pronunciation: /liːd/

The English word “lede” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A man; a person.
The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.

Etymology

From Middle English lede, leode (“man; human being, person; lord, prince; God; sir; group, kind; race; a people, nation; human race; land, real property”) [and other forms], from three closely related words: * Old English lēod (“man; chief, leader; (poetic) prince; a people, people group; nation”); * Old English lēoda (“man; person; native of a country”), related to lēod; and * Old English lēode…

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