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means The past tense and past participle of 'lead' — being guided, directed, or shown the way by someone or something else.

from From Old English lǣdan, meaning 'to lead or guide,' which traces back to a Germanic root related to a word meaning 'path' or 'journey' — so to lead, at bottom, is to make someone's path for them. The past tense 'led' emerged the ordinary Germanic way, by vowel change rather than tacking on '-ed,' which is exactly why people keep misspelling it 'lead' — confusing it with the metal, which is an entirely unrelated word that just happens to be spelled the same.