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{{also|LEDE|ledě|leđe}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2022|May|3}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|lēd|a=RP}}, {{IPA|en|/liːd/}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-lede.wav|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/lid/|a=GA}}
* {{homophones|en|lead|lied}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːd|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁lewdʰ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|lede}}, {{m|enm|leode|t=man; human being, person; lord, prince; God; sir; group, kind; race; a people, nation; human race; land, real property}}{{nb...|led, ledd, leid, leide, leod, leude, leyde, lide, lud, lude, lued, luþe, (Early Middle English) ledin, leoda, leodæ, leoden|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=lẹ̄d(e|pos=''n.''(2)|noformat=1|id=MED24956}}</ref> from three closely related words:

* {{inh|en|ang|lēod|t=man; chief, leader; (''poetic'') prince; a people, people group; nation}};
* {{inh|en|ang|lēoda|t=man; person; native of a country}}, related to {{m|ang|lēod}}; and
* {{inh|en|ang|lēode|t=men; people; the people of a country}}, originally the plural of {{m|ang|lēod}}.

{{m|ang|lēod|Lēod}} is inherited from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*liudi}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*liudiz|t=man; person; men; people}}, from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*h₁léwdʰis|t=man, people}}, from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*h₁lewdʰ-|t=to grow; people}}.<ref>Compare {{R:OED Online|entry=† lede|pos=''n.''{{sup|1}}|noformat=1|id=106885|date=December 2020}}</ref> {{doublet|en|leud}}.

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The English word is cognate with {{cog|nl|lieden|t=people}}, {{m|nl|lui|lui(den)|people}}, {{cog|de|Leute|t=people}}, {{cog|no|lyd|t=people}}, {{cog|pl|lud|t=people}}, {{cog|ru|люди|t=people}}, {{cog|fy|lie|t=people}}.
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====Noun====
{{en-noun|lede}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[man#Noun|man]]; a [[person]].
#* {{quote-book|en|chapter=fflodden ffeilde|editors=[[w:John Wesley Hales|John W[esley] Hales]]; [[w:Frederick James Furnivall|Frederick J[ames] Furnivall]]; [[w:Francis James Child|[Francis James] Child]]; [[w:William Chappell (writer)|W[illiam] Chappell]]; et al.|title=[[w:Percy Folio|Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances]]|location=London|publisher=[[w:Nicholas Trübner|N[icholas] Trübner & Co.]],{{nb...|60, Paternoster Row}}|year=p. 1544|year_published=1867|volume=I|page=318|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=olUJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA318|lines=9–12|oclc=885426428|passage=& after to [[Calais|callice]] hee &#91;[[w:Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk|Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey]]&#93; arriued, / like a noble '''Leed''' of high degree, / & then to [[w:Thérouanne|Turwin]] soone he hyed, / there he thought to haue found K''ing'' [[w:Henry VIII|Henery]]; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Joseph Bosworth|J[oseph] Bosworth]]|chapter=Friesic|title=The Origin of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages, and Nations:{{nb...|With a Sketch of Their Literature, and Short Chronological Specimens of the Anglo-Saxon, Friesic, Flemish, Dutch, the German from the Mœso-Goths to the Present Time, the Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish: Tracing the Progress of These Languages, and Their Connexion with the Anglo-Saxon and the Present English. With a Map of European Languages.}}|location=London|publisher=[[w:Longman|Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green]]|year=1836|page=72|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YBTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA72|oclc=10625052|passage=Sweet, yes sweet is over (''beyond'') measure / The marrying for the young '''lede''' (''people''); / Most sweet it is, I say yet (''once more''), / When it goes with the rede (''counsel'') of the elders.|footer={{small|A translation of part of the first stanza of a song composed {{circa2|1650|short=1}} by the West Frisian poet {{w|Gysbert Japiks}} (1603–1666): “Swíet, ja swíet is 't, oer 'e míete / 'T Boáskien fóar 'e jonge '''lie'''; / Kreftich swíet is 't, sizz' ik jíette, / As it giet mei âlders ríe.”}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|chapter=Transition English: From the Conquest to [[w:Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]].—{{smallcaps|a.d.}} 1066 to {{smallcaps|a.d.}} 1352 &#91;{{w|Sir Cleges}}.&#93;|editor=w:Henry Morley|title=Shorter English Poems|series=Cassell’s Library of English Literature|location=London; Paris|publisher=[[w:Cassell (publisher)|Cassell & Company]],{{nb...|Limited: London, Paris & New York.}}|year=c. 1870s|page=28|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/shorterenglishpo00morl/page/28/mode/1up|column=2|lines=409–412|oclc=913043678|passage=Gramércy, liegé 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.|footer={{small|Spelling modernized by the editor from a late-14th – early-15th-century text.}}}}

=====Usage notes=====
* In modern English, the word is only found as a conscious [[archaism]].

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{alter|en|leed|leod}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|leden}}

===Etymology 2===
[[File:A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.jpg|thumb|240px|The lede of this [[article#Noun|article]] is its [[first#Adjective|first]] [[paragraph#Noun|paragraph]], which says, “One of the greatest sensations in Whitman county was caused yesterday afternoon when Sheriff Canutt arrested Dr. T. D. Ferguson upon a charge of manslaughter. The information says that Dr. Ferguson committed the crime on April 21, 1904, ‘by unlawfully, willfully and feloniously slaying and killing one Agnes R. Downs.’” The [[hed#Etymology 1|hed]] (i.e., the [[headline]], using a similarly misspelled form) says, “A prominent physician is charged with manslaughter”.]]

A deliberate misspelling of {{m|en|lead}}, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word ''lead'' which may actually appear in the text of an article.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''n.''{{sup|2}}|noformat=1|id=431803|date=March 2019|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}</ref><ref>Alternatively, it has been claimed that the word was misspelled to avoid confusion with {{m|en|lead|t=strip of type metal used for positioning type in the frame}} (pronounced {{IPAchar|/lɛd/}}): see {{cite-web|title=The Maven’s Word of the Day: lede|work={{w|Random House}}|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010417153423/http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128|archivedate=17 April 2001|date=28 November 2000}}.</ref> Compare {{m|en|dek|t=subhead}} (modified from {{m|en|deck}}) and {{m|en|hed|t=headline}} (from {{m|en|head}}).

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{senseid|en|journalism}} {{lb|en|chiefly|US|journalism}} The [[introductory]] [[paragraph#Noun|paragraph]] or paragraphs of a [[newspaper]], or a [[news#Noun|news]] or other [[type#Noun|type]] of [[article#Noun|article]]; the [[lead#English: lede|lead]] or [[lead-in]]. {{defdate|from mid 20th c.}}
#: {{synonyms|en|intro}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=J. W. Click; Russell N. Baird|title=Magazine Editing and Production|edition=2nd|location=Dubuque, Iowa|publisher=[[w:McGraw Hill Education|W[illiam] C. Brown]]|year=1979|page=90|isbn=978-0-697-04329-0|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Mike Godwin|chapter=Who’s a Journalist?—II: Welcome the New Journalists on the Internet|editors=[[w:Robert Giles|Robert H. Giles]]; Robert W. Snyder|title=What’s Next?: Problems & Prospects of Journalism|location=New Brunswick, N.J.; London|publisher=w:Transaction Publishers|year=1999|year_published=2001|page=46|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7Eluwuvx-EC&pg=PA46|isbn=978-0-7658-0709-0|passage="How can Mr. On-line Guy learn to be a journalist if he didn't go through what I went through?" they [newspaper journalists] ask. "I needed the city editor to tell me how to write a graceful sentence, and I was a year into the job before I could craft a decent '''lede'''?"}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Brian McGrory|chapter=40|title=Strangled|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Atria Publishing Group|Atria Books]]|month=February|year=2007|page=314|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/strangled00mcgr/page/314/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-7434-6368-3|passage=I was thrilled to be in possession of this nugget, which could probably take over the '''lede''' of my story. This essentially and truly implicated one of the most respected homicide detectives in Boston, all based on my initial tip.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=w:Michael Tomasky|title=Michael Tomasky’s Blog: This Morning’s Stuff You Need to Know|work=w:The Guardian|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306082201/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/oct/15/johnmccain-williamtimmons|archivedate=6 March 2016|location=London|publisher=[[w:Guardian Media Group|Guardian News & Media]]|date=15 October 2008|passage=The '''lede''' (as we spell it) story in today's NYT [''{{w|The New York Times}}''] is all about their new poll showing that [[w:John McCain|[John] McCain]] is hurting himself, not [[w:Barack Obama|[Barack] Obama]], with the attacks. {{...}} If something's the '''lede''' in the NYT, it tends to get discussed on cable TV all day, etc.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Branden Salas|chapter=Reporting for Print Media|title=Basic Concept of Journalism|location=Waltham Abbey, Essex|publisher=Ed-Tech Press|year=2018|year_published=2020|page=253|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=UejEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253|isbn=978-1-83947-288-6|passage=Like all forms of writing, there's no hard and fast rule about what makes a great '''lede'''. A good '''lede''' changes depending on the story you're writing. {{...}} '''Ledes''' vary wildly, but you'll start to notice patterns and, more importantly, what kinds of '''ledes''' you like and feel are effective.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Naveed Saleh|chapter=Narrative: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends|title=The Writer’s Guide to Self-editing: Essential Tips for Online and Print Publishing|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=w:McFarland & Company|year=2019|section=part VII (Global Considerations)|page=225|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=coCJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT235|isbn=978-1-4766-7159-8|passage=Here are some different types of '''ledes''': {{...}} ·&nbsp;Scenario '''ledes''' use narrative elements to describe a place of particular importance to the story. / ·&nbsp;Narrative '''ledes''' begin at a chronological beginning. {{...}} ·&nbsp;First-person anecdotal '''ledes''' begin with a relevant anecdote that involves the writer. Service and celebrity pieces often begin with first-person '''ledes'''.}}

=====Usage notes=====
* The word, which has entered ordinary usage, was originally journalistic jargon. In 1990, the American author and journalist {{w|William Safire}} (1929–2009) was still able to say: “You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. {{...}} Will ''lede'' break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? {{...}} To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing {{...}} But it has earned its place as a variant spelling, soon to overtake the original spelling for the beginning of a news article.”<ref>{{cite-journal|en|author=William Safire|authorlink=William Safire|title=On language: (HED) folo my lede (UNHED)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-language-hed-folo-my-lede-unhed.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703040610/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-language-hed-folo-my-lede-unhed.html|archivedate=3 July 2021|magazine={{w|The New York Times Magazine}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher={{w|The New York Times Company}}|date=18 November 1990|section=section 6|page=22|issn=0028-7822|oclc=762261046}}.</ref>

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|bury the lede}}
* {{l|en|lede to kum}}
* {{l|en|nulede}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper or other news article}}
* Armenian: {{t|hy|լիդ}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|entrada|f}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|perex}}
* Danish: {{t|da|manchet}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|lead}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|juhtlõik}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ingressi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|chapeau|m}}
* German: {{t|de|Lead-Stil|m}}
* Greek: {{t|el|εισαγωγική παράγραφος|f}}, {{t+|el|εισαγωγή|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t|id|teras berita}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|лид}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|ingress|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|ingress|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|lead|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|lide|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|лид|m}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|per extensum}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|entradilla|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|ingress|c}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|лід}}
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====See also====
* [[Appendix:Glossary of journalism#Article components|Glossary of journalism: Article components]]

===Etymology 3===
See {{m|en|lead|id=guide}}.

====Verb====
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{obsolete spelling of|en|lead|t=to guide|id=guide}}

===References===
<references/>

===Further reading===
* {{pedia|lead paragraph}}
* {{R:Merriam-Webster Online}}
* {{R:TheFreeDictionary|source=AHD}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=deel|Deel|LEED|deel|dele|leed}}

{{cln|en|indeclinable nouns}}

==Afrikaans==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|af|/ˈlɪə.də/}}

===Noun===
{{head|af|noun form}}

# {{plural of|af|lid}}

==Czech==

===Pronunciation===
* {{cs-IPA}}

===Noun===
{{head|cs|noun form}}

# {{infl of|cs|led||voc|s}}

==Danish==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|da|/ˈleːðə/|[ˈle̝ːð̩]|[ˈle̝ːð̩˕˗ˠ]}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{der|da|non|leiða||to lead}}, from {{inh|da|gem-pro|*laidijaną||to lead}}, cognate with {{cog|en|lead}}, {{cog|de|leiten}}. It is a causative of the verb {{m|gem-pro|*līþaną||to go, pass}}.

====Verb====
{{head|da|verb|past tense|ledede|or|ledte|past participle|ledet|or|ledt}}

# to [[manage]], [[run]]
# to [[head]], [[direct]]
# to [[lead]], [[guide]]
# to [[conduct]]

=====Conjugation=====
{{da-conj|led||er|{{l|da|ledede}} or {{l|da|ledte}}|h|{{l|da|ledet}} or {{l|da|ledt}}||||{{l|da|lededes}} or {{l|da|ledtes}}}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der2|da
|aflede
|henlede
|indlede
|ledende
|ledelse
|leder
|ledetråd
|ledning
|retlede
|udlede
|vejlede
|vildlede
}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{der|da|non|leita||to seek, search}}, from {{der|da|gem-pro|*wlaitōną}}, cognate with {{cog|ang|wlātian||to look upon}}, {{cog|got|𐍅𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽||to look around}}.

====Verb====
{{head|da|verb|past tense|ledte|past participle|ledt}}

# to [[look]], [[search]] for

=====Conjugation=====
{{da-conj|led||er|te|h|t}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der4|da
|oplede
}}

===Etymology 3===
From {{der|da|non|leiða}}, derived from the adjective {{der|da|non|leiðr}} ({{cog|da|led||disgusting}}).

====Noun====
{{da-noun|n|-}}

# [[disgust]], [[distaste]], [[loathing]]

=====Declension=====
{{da-decl|n|n=sg}}

=====Antonyms=====
* {{l|da|lyst}}

===Etymology 4===
{{nonlemma}}

====Adjective====
{{head|da|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|da|led||def|nocat=1}}
# {{inflection of|da|led||p|nocat=1}}

==Dutch==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|Nl-lede.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|nl|eːdə|s=2}}

===Verb===
{{head|nl|verb form}}

# {{infl of|nl|lijden||s|past|sub}}

===Anagrams===
* {{l|nl|deel}}, {{l|nl|dele}}, {{l|nl|edel}}, {{l|nl|leed}}

==Galician==

===Verb===
{{head|gl|verb form}}

# {{gl-verb form of|ler}}

==Italian==

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|lède}}

===Verb===
{{head|it|verb form}}

# {{inflection of|it|ledere||3|s|pres|ind}}

==Middle Dutch==

===Noun===
{{head|dum|noun form|head=lêde}}

# {{inflection of|dum|lêet||dat|s}}

==Middle English==

===Etymology 1===
{{root|enm|ine-pro|*h₁lewdʰ-}}
{{etymid|enm|people}}
From {{inh|enm|ang|lēode||people, men}}, plural of {{m|ang|lēod}}, from {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*liudī}}, plural of {{m|gmw-pro|*liud(i)}}, from {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*liudīz}}, plural of {{m|gem-pro|*liudiz}}, from {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*h₁léwdʰeyes}}, plural of {{m|ine-pro|*h₁léwdʰis}}.

Akin to {{cog|ofs|liod}}, {{cog|osx|liud}}, {{cog|non|ljóðr}}, {{m|non|lýðr}}, {{cog|goh|liut}}, {{cog|nl|lieden}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|enm|led|leed|leede|leyde|leod|leode|leude|lud|lude|lued|lyde}}
* {{q|early}} {{alter|enm|leoda|leodæ}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{IPA|enm|/ˈleːd(ə)/}}

====Noun====
{{enm-noun|pl2=lede|pl3=leden|pl3_qual=early}} {{tlb|enm|poetic}}

# A ([[male]]) [[human]]; a [[man]]:
## A [[vassal]] or [[subject]].
## A [[servant]] or [[retainer]].
## A [[ruler]]; one with governing [[authority]].
# {{lb|enm|collectively|nocat=1}} [[people|People]], [[folk]].
# A [[nation]]; a [[people]].
# A [[race]] or [[stock]]; one's [[kindred]].
# [[real estate|Real estate]]; owned [[land]].

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|en|lede|qq=obsolete}}
* {{desc|sco|leid}}

=====References=====
* {{R:MED Online|entry=lẹ̄d(e|pos=n|id=MED24956}}

===Etymology 2===

====Noun====
{{head|enm|noun}}

# {{alt form|enm|led|t=lead}}

===Etymology 3===

====Noun====
{{head|enm|noun}}

# {{alt form|enm|leden|t=language|id=language}}

===Etymology 4===

====Verb====
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|leden|t=to lead|id=to lead}}
#* Perle Section 15. Anonymous 15th century.
#*: A blysful lyf þou says I '''lede''';

===Etymology 5===

====Verb====
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|leden|t=to cover in lead|id=to cover in lead}}

{{C|enm|Collectives|Ethnicity|Government|Male people}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Etymology===
From {{der|nb|non|leiða}}, and {{der|nb|da|lede}}.

===Verb===
{{head|nb|verb|imperative|led|present tense|leder|passive|ledes|simple past and past participle|leda|or|ledet|present participle|ledende}}

# to [[lead]]
# to [[guide]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|nb|avlede}}
* {{l|nb|innlede}}
* {{l|nb|ledelse}}
* {{l|nb|ledning}}

===See also===
* {{l-nn|leie}}

===References===
* {{R:The Bokmål Dictionary}}

==Portuguese==

===Verb===
{{head|pt|verb form}}

# {{pt-verb form of|ler}}

==Swedish==

===Etymology===
From the nominal use (masculine inflection) of adjective {{m|sv|led||loathsome}}, in the more original synonym {{m|sv||den lede frestaren|the loathsome [[tempter]]}}.

===Adjective===
{{head|sv|adjective form}}

# {{adj form of|sv|led||def|natm|s}}

===Noun===
{{sv-noun|c}}

# the evil one, the [[loathsome]] or [[disgusting]] one; the [[devil]], [[Satan]]

====Usage notes====
Most commonly as {{m|sv|den lede}}.

====See also====
* {{l|sv|lede fi}}