leading man

1. 1.

   actor who plays the leading male role

   Broaderactor

Questions about leading man

What does leading man mean?

leading man means "actor who plays the leading male role".

Is leading man a common word?

leading man 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.