a person who rules, guides, or inspires others; head
2. music
a. Also called (esp US and Canadian): concertmaster
the principal first violinist of an orchestra, who plays solo parts, and acts as the conductor's deputy and spokesperson for the orchestra
b. US
a conductor or director of an orchestra or chorus
3.
a.
the first person on a climbing rope
b.
the leading horse or dog in a team
4. mainly US and Canadian
an article offered at a sufficiently low price to attract customers
See also loss leader
5.
a statistic or index that gives an advance indication of the state of the economy
6. Also called: leading article mainly British
the leading editorial in a newspaper
7. angling another word for trace2 (sense 2), cast (sense 32a)
8. nautical another term for fairlead
9.
a strip of blank film or tape used to facilitate threading a projector, developing machine, etc, and to aid identification
10. (plural) printing
rows of dots or hyphens used to guide the reader's eye across a page, as in a table of contents
11. botany
any of the long slender shoots that grow from the stem or branch of a tree: usually removed during pruning
12. British
a member of the Government having primary authority in initiating legislative business (esp in the phrases Leader of the House of Commons and Leader of the House of Lords)
13.
the senior barrister, usually a Queen's Counsel, in charge of the conduct of a case
Compare junior (sense 6)
Duce in British English
(Italian ˈduːtʃe)
noun
Il Duce
duce in American English
(ˈdutʃɛ)
Italian
noun
leader: title (Il Duce) assumed by Benito Mussolini as head of Fascist Italy
Word origin
It < L dux (gen. ducis): see duct
Examples of 'duce' in a sentence
duce
And if we have to identify ourselves formally as Henry's envoys, we can always pro duce our passports.