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Definition of Leading man
1. Noun. Actor who plays the leading male role.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leading Man
Literary usage of Leading man
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"The leading man. — In star plays the leading man plays the male role next in ...
If the star is a lady, the leading man, in about ninety-nine cases out of a ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the (1898)
"Mr. Keene rose rapidly in his profession, and in 1865 he became leading "man with
Kate Fisher. He traveled with her through Canada, and then filled a ..."
3. Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius: Literally Translated, with Notes and by Marcus Junianus Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Eutropius (1853)
"... and that by such conduct, he occasioned that, with whatever people he was, he
was regarded as a leading man, and held in the utmost esteem. ..."
4. Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell, from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1919)
"For so far is the Lord from leading man into hell that it is He who delivers man
from hell, and this He does so far as man does not will and love to be in ..."
5. Fifty Years of an Actors̓ Life by John Coleman (1904)
"Chester Races and Romeo's Wig—I begin with Mercutio and, after my Death, come to
Life again as Romeo—Return to Liverpool—My First Engagement as leading man ..."
6. Bohemian Paris of To-day by William Chambers Morrow, Édouard Cucuel (1899)
"One of the actors is a great swell,—M. Fontaine, leading man at the Theatre du
Montparnasse, opposite. His salary is a hundred francs a week ; this makes ..."
7. The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Thomas Williams Bicknell (1920)
"After reciting the leading events of his life, he closes, "Governor Arnold was
a leading man of the times in which he lived and occupied a conspicuous place ..."
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