bellwether

1. 1.

   someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity

   Broaderleader
2. 2.

   sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell

   Broaderwether

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plural

bellwethers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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