Meanings
plural coleads
- 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
present singular third person coleads · participle present coleading · participle past coled · past coled
- To lead jointly.
Last year, in April 1993, I co-led a party of birdwatchers to the island[.]
2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 1091 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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