opinion leader

English

Noun

opinion leader (plural opinion leaders)

1. one who guides and influences public opinion

   Synonym: opinion maker

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English opinion leader.

Noun

opinion leader m or f by sense (invariable)

1. opinion leader
   • 2020, Barack Obama, translated by Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, and Giuseppe Maugeri, Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     Durante i primi mesi di campagna mi preoccupavo, almeno a livello subcosciente, di cosa pensassero gli opinion leader di Washington.

     During the first few months of campaigning, I'd worried at least subconsciously about what Washington opinion makers thought.

     (literally, “During the first few months of the campaign I worried, at least at a subconscious level, of what Washington opinion leaders thought.”)