colead

C3O1L1E1A1D2
/ˈkəʊˌliːd/

noun

A joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.

Scrabble 9

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nouncolead (plural coleads)

plural coleads

  1. A joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.

    Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony. (The studio preferred Cary Grant and Burt Lancaster in these roles, respectively.)

    2006, James Robert Parish, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, page 23
verbcolead (third-person singular simple present coleads, present participle coleading, simple past and past participle coled)

present singular third person coleads · participle present coleading · participle past coled · past coled

  1. To lead jointly.

    Last year, in April 1993, I co-led a party of birdwatchers to the island[.]

    2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 109
    1 more example

    A workshop dealing with "Our Place in Judaism" was co-led by gay male and straight female rabbis.

    1982 August 14, Aryeh Engel, Aliza Maggad, “Differences Into Unity”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 7

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APA

colead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colead

MLA

“colead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colead. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colead,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colead.

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