Definitions
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- n. A man; person.
- n. Men; people, folk.
- n. A people or nation.
- n. Tenements; holdings; possessions.
- n. The introductory paragraph(s) of a newspaper or other news article.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A Middle English form of lead.
- A Middle English form of lead.
- n. A man; in the plural, men; people.
- n. plural Tenements; holdings; possessions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the introductory section of a story
Etymologies
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Examples
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Undoubtedly a moving and important story (I'll definitely check it out), but ... the lede is a little treacly, don't you think?
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Therefore, the lede is not an exaggeration, but a reminder.
Matthew Yglesias » Kathryn Jean-Lopez and Rush Limbaugh Are Not Very Intelligent
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The lede is a girls basketball team, but the lessons are larger: Davids win all the time.
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The lede is that Grover puts forward a hypothetical in which it is assumed that the GOP can come up with ten good ideas, and also that teh Democrats would reject any such good ideas out of hand.
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It's a nice article, but the lede is slightly off-base.
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In the news journalism industry, particularly in the US, the particular news-style of lead used is sometimes referred to as a lede.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Still Seeking 'The Ineffable' in 2012
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"Superdelegates Give Themselves Wiggle Room on Clinton-Obama" (Mike Soraghan, The Hill) Reporter Soraghan's lede is good: "As the fight over superdelegates gets harder, some of the superdelegate endorsements are getting softer."
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The lede is particularly sparkling: Brünnhilde made a guest appearance Friday night in the middle of J.S. Bach's joyous Cantata No. 51 ( "Jauchzet Gott!"), a piece usually sung by lyric sopranos of the Kathleen Battle mold.
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Op daardie stadium was daar al etlike polisie beseer, klippe teen die kop, waar bloed van die kop af gestroom het, teen die been gegooi het, die karre was stukkend gegooi, daar was baie min lede wat toe nog nie beseer of een of ander klein beserinkie gehad het as gevolg van die klippe nie en ek wou net die voertuie en die lede ten alle koste daar uit hê met die minste lewensverlies.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
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In the news business, the opening sentences of a story are referred to as its "lede" -- spelled that way, journalism lore has it, to avoid confusion with the lead typesetting that once dominated newspaper printing presses.
Reporters Should Be Barred From Wars, Says Reporter - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
swordnik commented on the word lede
It's interesting that 'lede' doesn't appear under the sense of 'lead' or 'intro' in the Century or OED. Wikipedia says it's journo-jargon, ostensibly used to differentiate itself from 'lead' or 'leading', the typographical property:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style#Lead_or_intro
It's also not a valid Scrabble word under TWL or SOWPODS.
January 18, 2010
tbtabby commented on the word lede
Usually used in the context of newspaper articles, for the first sentence which sums up the topic of the article. There are some very strange ledes out there. Here's one from MSNBC: "A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff."
March 28, 2009