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BANDLEADER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bandleader mean?
• BANDLEADER (noun)
The noun BANDLEADER has 1 sense:
1. the leader of a dance band
Familiarity information: BANDLEADER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The leader of a dance band
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bandleader" is a kind of...):
conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)
Instance hyponyms:
Benjamin David Goodman; Benny Goodman; Goodman; King of Swing (United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986))
Herman; Woodrow Charles Herman; Woody Herman (United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987))
Alton Glenn Miller; Glenn Miller; Miller (United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944))
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; Artie Shaw; Shaw (United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004))
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