figurehead

Day 71Level 2

FIG-yer-hed

head of a group

carved image on the prow of a ship; a person who is head of a group only in title

Part of Speech: noun

Example Sentence:

He may still be in prison, the figurehead of Turkey's Kurdish independence movement is calling the shots again.

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