female lead

collocation in English

meaningsoffemaleandlead

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female
adjective
uk
/ˈfiː.meɪl/us
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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lead
noun
uk
/liːd/us
/liːd/
a winning position during a race or other situation where people ...
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(Definition offemaleandleadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffemale lead

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Haco, who assumed the conventionally 'disempowering' image offemalelead-vocalist in an otherwise disproportionately male group of musicians, was in fact the key composer and a technically trained engineer.
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The music festival is dedicated to rock and metal bands withfemaleleadvocalists.
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Reviewers have commented that she is a strong,femaleleaduncommon to video games.
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Currently not much is known about the series other than it will be about a family and will have afemaleleadrole.
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She usually played the sister or rejected fiance of the male lead but almost never thefemalelead.
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So he dresses up like a woman, gets a female role and falls in love with thefemalelead.
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The band, fronted by afemaleleadsinger, is known for their exuberant and stylized live shows, often incorporating art and performance elements.
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She's a firecracker, instinctive and uninhibited in what isn't even a conventionalfemalelead.
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Anotherfemaleleadwill be roped in soon.
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We had afemalelead, for one thing, a strong, healthy woman.
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The work is noted for the high degree of technical difficulties it presents for thefemalelead.
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Between 1957 and 1967 she appeared, often as thefemaleleadactress, in dozens of films, but failed to emerge because of the stereotyped roles.
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He is often in fights with thefemalelead, which he secretly liked since the first time he met her nine years ago.
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The story is set in the future, and features several strongfemaleleadcharacters.
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Thefemaleleadof the film is yet to be announced.
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