leading (n.)
- absolute
- antecedent
- anterior
- arch
- ascendant
- authoritarian
- authority
- banner
- best
- boss
- capital
- cardinal
- central
- champion
- chief
- command
- competent
- conduct
- control
- direction
- directive
- directory
- dominant
- first
- fore
- forehand
- forward
- front
- frontal
- general
- governance
- governing
- government
- great
- greatest
- guidance
- handling
- head
- heading
- husbandry
- imperative
- inaugural
- initial
- lead
- maiden
- main
- management
- manipulation
- master
- mighty
- official
- ordering
- pilotage
- precedent
- preliminary
- premier
- primary
- prime
- principal
- prior
- propaedeutic
- ranking
- regnant
- regulating
- regulation
- ruling
- running
- senior
- sovereign
- star
- steerage
- steering
- superior
- totalitarian
leading (adj.)
- absolute
- antecedent
- anterior
- arch
- ascendant
- authoritarian
- authoritative
- authorized
- autocratic
- banner
- best
- boss
- capital
- cardinal
- central
- champion
- chief
- commanding
- competent
- consequential
- considerable
- controlling
- crowning
- directing
- directive
- directory
- dominant
- eminent
- empowered
- first
- focal
- fore
- foregoing
- forehand
- foremost
- forward
- front
- frontal
- general
- governing
- great
- greatest
- guiding
- head
- imperative
- important
- inaugural
- influential
- initial
- initiatory
- lead
- magisterial
- maiden
- main
- managerial
- master
- matchless
- mighty
- momentous
- noted
- notorious
- official
- outstanding
- overriding
- paramount
- peerless
- popular
- potent
- powerful
- precedent
- preceding
- precursory
- predominant
- predominate
- preeminent
- prefatory
- preliminary
- premier
- preparatory
- preponderant
- prestigious
- prevailing
- prevalent
- prevenient
- primal
- primary
- prime
- principal
- prior
- prominent
- propaedeutic
- puissant
- ranking
- regnant
- regulating
- regulation
- regulative
- regulatory
- reigning
- ruling
- running
- senior
- sovereign
- star
- stellar
- substantial
- superior
- supreme
- topmost
- totalitarian
- unsurpassed
- uppermost
- weighty
The men of England,—the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
