Usually means: Organizer and leader of group.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word ringleader:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ringleader: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ringleader: Merriam-Webster
  3. ringleader: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ringleader: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ringleader: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ringleader: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ringleader, ringleader: Wordnik
  8. ringleader: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ringleader: Wiktionary
  10. ringleader: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ringleader: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ringleader: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ringleader, ringleader: Dictionary.com
  14. ringleader: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ringleader: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ringleader, The Ringleader: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ringleader: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ringleader: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ringleader: Rhymezone
  20. ringleader: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ringleader: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Ringleader: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. ringleader: FreeDictionary.org
  24. ringleader: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ringleader: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ringleader: Legal dictionary
  2. ringleader: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ringleader: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ringleader: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group.
▸ noun:  A person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang.

Similar:
leader, band leader, bandleader, racketeer, foreleader, choregus, chargeman, ringer, leadman, leadswinger, more...

Opposite:
follower, subordinate, underling

Phrases:
Ringleader of the Tormentors, more...

Adjectives:
alleged, chief, principal, very, apparent, great, real, old, pragmatical, original, single


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Similar:
leader, band leader, bandleader, racketeer, foreleader, choregus, chargeman, ringer, leadman, leadswinger, more...

Opposite:
follower, subordinate, underling

Phrases:
Ringleader of the Tormentors, more...

Adjectives:
alleged, chief, principal, very, apparent, great, real, old, pragmatical, original, single



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