Word: 'bellwether' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'bellwether' • Extended Annotations
also bell-wether, "lead sheep (on whose neck a bell was hung) of a domesticated flock"
bell (n.) + wether (male sheep)
from mid-14th century onward: "chief, leader"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |