leading lady

1. 1.

   actress who plays the leading female role

   Broaderactress

Questions about leading lady

What does leading lady mean?

leading lady means "actress who plays the leading female role".

Is leading lady a common word?

leading lady is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.