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单词 Akela
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Definition of Akela in English:

Akela

noun ɑːˈkeɪlə
informal
  • The adult leader of a group of Cub Scouts (officially termed Cub Scout Leader).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I joined with my mate Glynne Stentiford following a talk to our primary school by our local Akela, Mrs Cleall.
    • Cubs' Camp - ‘It was only years later when they find the shallow grave containing Akela's body that the sordid truth came out’
    • Phyll Brooke attended and was Assistant Cub Scout Leader from the early 1950s and then Akela until 1982.
    • She said: ‘My sons went there and I helped out to start with but when the group was threatened with closure I was talked into taking over as Akela.’
    • His wife, Sharelle, worked as secretary to one of the auctioneers at Woolley & Wallis and was Akela of the Amesbury Cubs, a role in which she proved very popular.
    • I hear O'Leary's up for Taylor's job, but then if there was a part-time vacancy for an Akela at a scout hut, O'Leary would be up for it.

Origin

1920s: from the name of the leader of a wolf pack in Kipling's Jungle Books (1894–5).

 
 
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