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Definition: Leander |
LeanderNoun1. (Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Leander" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lion of a man". |
Date "Leander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"Leander" is a common misspelling or typo for: leader, leaner, lender, oleander. |
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Literature | Leander (3 syl.) A young man of Abydos, who swam nightly across the Hellespont to visit his lady-love, Hero, a priestess of Sestos. One night he was drowned in his attempt, and Hero leaped into the Hellespont also. This story is told in one of the poems of Musaeus, entitled Hero and Leander. (See Marlowe's poem.) (See Hero .) Lord Byron and Lieutenant Ekenhead repeated the experiment of Leander and accomplished it in 1 hour 10 minutes. The distance, allowing for drifting, would be about four miles. A young man of St. Croix, in 1817, swam over the Sound from Croneuburgh, in 2 hours 40 minutes, the distance being six miles. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Leander |
| English words defined with "Leander": Abydos ♦ hero. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Leander": Hero and Leander. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Leander" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Hungarian (oleander). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Leander Sisters (1897) | |
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 | Plate 3. Clement metallic thermometer - cross sectional schematic of the model at the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco. The model at the museum was constructed by Negretti and Zambra in 1912 after the original made in 1839 by Leander Clement, the clock maker of Rochefort. The thermometer functioned by comparing the expansion (or contraction) of two strips of different types of metal.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | USS Saint Louis (CL-49) and HMNZS Leander firing during the action. This is probably the battle's initial engagement, in which the Japanese light cruiser Jintsu was sunk by gunfire and torpedo hits and Leander was damaged by a Japanese torpedo.Credit: NAVY. |
| USS Saint Louis (CL-49) and HMNZS Leander firing during the action. This is probably the battle's initial engagement, in which the Japanese light cruiser Jintsu was sunk by gunfire and torpedo hits and Leander was damaged by a Japanese torpedo.Credit: NAVY. |  | Leander.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dog looking at monkey with ball of yarn] / Leander Baker, photographer.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Leander" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Leander" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Leander" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Leander | Last name | 300 | 23,666 |
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| "Leander" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lion of a man". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Leander." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Leandra | Female | N/A | Leander |
| Léandre | Male | French | Leander |
| Leander | Male | Greek Mythology (Latinized) | N/A |
| Leandro | Male | Italian | Leander |
| Leandro | Male | Spanish | Leander |
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1. Leander, KY 2. Leander, LA 3. Leander, TX (city, FIPS 42016) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
leander isd | 214 |
leander tx | 137 |
leander | 44 |
leander independent school district | 43 |
leander texas | 38 |
leander high school | 35 |
zarah leander | 22 |
leander paes | 20 |
hero leander | 16 |
leander school district | 15 |
city of leander | 12 |
leander insurance | 12 |
leander middle school | 12 |
leander mcnelly | 5 |
leander school | 5 |
leander lyrics zarah | 4 |
leander ky | 4 |
leander table | 3 |
leander news zarah | 3 |
leander newspaper texas | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Leander"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | λÎανδÏοσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eanderlay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Leander": oleander. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Leander": oleanders. (additional references) | |
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"Leander" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elander, Elandre, Euander, Leanders, Leandro, Leinsdorf, Lenander, Leondre, Lexander, Llandre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: learned. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: aneled, darnel, dealer, earned, endear, lander, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, lender, neared, relend. | |
-2 letters: alder, anele, denar, eared, eland, elder, ender, laden, lader, laree, learn, naled, ranee, redan, renal. | |
-3 letters: alee, dale, dare, darn, deal, dean, dear, deer, dele, dene, dere, dree, earl, earn, elan, erne, lade, land, lane, lard, lead, lean, lear, leer, lend, nard, near, need, nerd, rale, rand, read, real, rede, reed, reel, rend. | |
-4 letters: ale, and, ane, are, dal, dee, del, den, ear, eel, eld, end, era, ere, ern, lad, lar, lea, led, lee, nae, nee, rad, ran, red, ree. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, al, an, ar, de, ed, el, en, er, la, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aldermen, antlered, calender, enlarged, lavender, oleander, rehandle, reloaned, renailed. | |
+2 letters: alexander, banderole, bandoleer, blarneyed, breadline, calenders, ealdormen, endurable, engrailed, ensnarled, glandered, headliner, laundered, launderer, lavenders, learnedly, legendary, madrilene, oleanders, overladen, prebendal, realigned, recleaned, rehandled, rehandles, relearned, repaneled, replanned, replanted, slandered, slanderer, tailender, unaltered, unlearned, unraveled, unrelated, unrelaxed. | |
+3 letters: adherently, adrenaline, adulterine, alderwomen, alexanders, alternated, banderoles, bandleader, bandoleers, breadlines, calendared, calendered, calenderer, chandelier, confederal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, delineator, derailment, embrangled, endodermal, endorsable, enthralled, entodermal, freelanced, goaltender, headliners, interlaced, interplead, launderers, laundrette, lavendered, linearised, linearized, madrilenes, malingered, mislearned, newsdealer, nonfederal, outlearned, overhandle, ponderable, precleaned, preplanned, reanalyzed, rebalanced, refundable, reinflated, relaunched, renderable, repanelled, repleading, ringleader, screenland, slanderers, tailenders, ultradense, undeclared, underglaze, undervalue, unenlarged, unheralded, unravelled, unreadable, unrealized, unrevealed, untraveled, vernalized. | |
+4 letters: accelerando, adrenalines, adrenalized, advertently, aldosterone, alexandrine, alexandrite, bandleaders, calenderers, calendering, candleberry, candlepower, centralised, centralized, chandeliers, chandleries, credentials, crenellated, decremental, deferential, delineators, deliverance, deliveryman, denumerable, denumerably, derailments, detrimental, discernable, durableness, endearingly, endometrial, engarlanded, eternalized, frankpledge, fraudulence, freeloading, generalised, generalized, goaltenders, greenmailed, interallied, interdealer, interdental, interlapped, interlarded, interleaved, interplayed, interpleads, lamebrained, launderette, laundresses, laundrettes, lavendering, learnedness, legendarily, legerdemain, lionhearted, mineralised, mineralized, neanderthal, neutralised, neutralized, newsdealers, overcleaned, overhandled, overhandles, overlearned, overplanned, overplanted, pentahedral, philandered, philanderer, precanceled, recanalized, rechanneled, reimplanted, reinstalled, relandscape, relatedness, relaxedness, residential, ringleaders, screenlands, sloganeered, streamlined, tabernacled, underglazes, underlapped, underplayed, undervalued, undervalues, undesirable, unendurable, unlaundered, unliberated, unreclaimed, unregulated, untrammeled, unweariedly. | |
+5 letters: accelerandos, adorableness, aldosterones, alexandrines, alexandrites, banderillero, candleholder, candlepowers, cantilevered, chandeliered, cheerleading, considerable, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, decreasingly, degenerately, degringolade, deliberating, deliberation, deliverances, demineralize, demonstrable, denaturalize, denuclearize, departmental, deregulating, deregulation, determinable, determinably, detrimentals, differential, doppelganger, dreadfulness, dreamfulness, endotracheal, externalised, externalized, federalizing, forehandedly, frankpledges, fraudulences, freehandedly, glycerinated, harlequinade, imponderable, ineradicable, intercalated, interdealers, interlayered, internalised, internalized, interplanted, interpleaded, interpleader, interpolated, interrelated, launderettes, legerdemains, lepidopteran, neanderthals, nonregulated, orientalized, outgeneraled, overanalyzed, overbalanced, overinflated, overpedaling, personalised, personalized, philanderers, precancelled, presidential, radioelement, readableness, rechallenged, rechannelled, regionalized, reinoculated, relandscaped, relandscapes, renormalized, restrainedly, retranslated, ultrarefined, unbridgeable, uncelebrated, uncorrelated, underclasses, underlayment, undesirables, unmanneredly, unparalleled, unredeemable, unverbalized, ventromedial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 6E 64 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- -. -.. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a n d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46716780707184 |
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