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LEADING MAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leading man mean?
• LEADING MAN (noun)
The noun LEADING MAN has 1 sense:
1. actor who plays the leading male role
Familiarity information: LEADING MAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actor who plays the leading male role
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("leading man" is a kind of...):
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Context examples
It’s a baddish business, he added when the butler had gone; he’s our leading man about here, is old Cunningham, and a very decent fellow too.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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