tête
4
9.9
- noun
- /tɛt/
- Formal
:
líder
- tête-à-tête
- a little tête-à-tête
Examples
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A few days after Simon and I had our tête-à-tête, my mother called with a reminder to bring my camera to Kwan's house that evening.
Fiction book (1996) -
Robbie liked to begin every tête-à-tête as if he were getting down to a happy weekend of dad-and-son touch football.
Fiction book (2002) -
But Svetlana soon resumes her tête-à-tête with my friend.
Fiction book (1996) -
If only he could travel to Hollywood to find her and tell her in a tête-à-tête how much he admired her, how much he loved everything about her: her eyes, her lips, her holy presence?
Fiction book (2000) -
And recall that cordial tête-à-tête Kennedy and Khrushchev had, and how it defused Cold War tensions?
Blog text (9) -
I met a friend for a long breakfast tête-à-tête at eight o'clock, chatted with Adam at Panera Bread around eleven, and enjoyed a relaxed lunch with Rebekah when I returned home.
Blog text (29) -
The CEO held a crucial tête with the board to discuss the company's future.
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During the crisis, the tête of the organization expressed confidence to the staff.
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The ambassador arranged a private tête with the foreign minister to resolve the issues.
Synonyms
∞
1.9
A person who leads a group or community
∞
1.0
A person in charge of a group or workers
20
8.9
A person in charge of a team or project
9
6.3
A person who is in charge of a company or group
2
8.4
A person who leads and gives orders to others, often in Spanish-speaking countries
A person who leads a team and makes most decisions
Compounds
How Senior
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tête comes from Latin testa 'shell' or 'skull', and like the English word 'head', it came to mean the person at the top. So calling someone the tête of a group means they are the leader or person in charge.