Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leading strings

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables: lead-ing strings
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk.

noun

Guidance given during childhood.

Example Sentences

"Thenceforward my voice was a household law; and at an age when few children have abandoned their leading-strings, I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions."
"In the hey-day of youth, and hardly out of the leading strings of a school, he formed an intention to nuptialize, and joined heart and hand with sweet Ann Hathaway at the age of eighteen and a half."

Questions

What does leading strings mean?: Strings or straps by which a child is supported when learning to walk.

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