Synonyms for bellwether
ˈbɛlˌwɛð ərbell·wether

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1. bellwethernoun

   Synonyms:
   sign, indicator, gauge

2. bellwethernoun

   The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.

   Synonyms:
   sign, indicator, gauge

3. bellwethernoun

   Anything that indicates future trends.

   Synonyms:
   sign, gauge, indicator

4. bellwethernoun

   A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition.

   Synonyms:
   gauge, indicator, sign

Princeton's WordNet

1. bellwethernoun

   someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity

2. bellwethernoun

   sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell

Matched Categories

1. • Leader
   • Wether

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1. List of paraphrases for "bellwether":

   giant

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1. Rick Hasen:

   These are kind of bellwether cases that people are watching, if Texas and North Carolina are successful here, then I suspect other states will follow suit.

2. President Trump:

   No, I dont see it as a bellwether.

3. Justin Fabo:

   China has huge potential to roil markets as the nation navigates a difficult structural transition, asian trade, traditionally a bellwether for global growth, is in recession.

4. Jonathan Brown:

   Investors' response to Deutsche Telekom, which is somewhat a European bellwether, gives us a good sense of what is to come. There is a lot of pipeline that will now unlock.

5. Walter Foster:

   The allegations brought by the California state department [ are ] seminal, and probably bellwether type litigation for this industry, it's being brought by a state agency, so they have the resources of the state. They don't invest in those litigations until they know they have a good case. ... You take a case to make an example.