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leander
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
youth of Abydos, lover of Hero, who swam nightly across the Hellespont to visit her, from Greek Leiandros, literally "lion-man," from leon "lion" + aner (genitive andros ) "man" (see anthropo- ).
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Leander is one the protagonists in the story of Hero and Leander in Greek mythology. Leander may also refer to:
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Population (2000): 7596 Housing Units (2000): 2612 Land area (2000): 7.474945 sq. miles (19.360017 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 7.474945 sq. miles (19.360017 sq. km) FIPS code: 42016 Located within: ...
Usage examples of leander.
Leander and Hero, the signal-lamp was dedicated to Anteros, witIl the edict that no man should light it unless his love had proved fortunate.
Unnumbered orphan from the slums of Berlinsome contemporaries swore Leander hadn't known how to read until he'd designed Bohr's Maker.
It hadn't been long before the conversation rolled around to Leander Bohr.
Van Ness had intended to inoculate himself with the Makerthat's what he'd told Nikkojust as Leander Bohr had done long ago with the Maker's original incarnation.
It's an enhancing Maker that was retrieved from the body of the convicted criminal, Leander Bohr.
Leander Bohr had colonized her, and she screamed at the agony of his life.
But there was no anger in his eyes, only horror, as he seemed to look past her face and into her soul, to recognize the evil sorcerer: the true spirit of Leander Bohr now.
The books about sport and mountaineering, of fifty years ago, tell of his exploits as an athlete, and of his mountain climbings in Switzerland and Mexico, and there is a book of famous bets called Light Come Light Go, in which you can read of how for a bet he swam the Thames in evening clothes and a high hat — but later on, and more romantically, he swam the Hellespont like Leander and Lord Byron.
Usually, Leander ate slowly and carefully, but today he was wolfing food as if there were no tomorrow.
Leander set the coffee mugs down on a butter churn, went to the front door, and pulled it open.
Hephaestus (see also Vulcan), 9 Hera (see also Juno), 9 Heracles (see also Hercules), 9 Heraclitus, 506 Herakleon, 592 Hercules, 9, 427, 435, 521, 552, 603 babyhood of, 441 birth of, 70 death of, 380 Juno and, 24 labors of, 58, 187, 237, 437, 621 madness of, 380 Mark Antony and, 333, 375 Nestor and, 122 Theseus and, 56 Troy and, 103, 122 Hermaphrodite, 10 Hermaphroditus, 10 Hermes (see also Mercury), 9 Aphrodite and, 10 Hermia, 19 Hermione, 151 Hero (legend), 49, 466, 571 Hero (Much Ado About Nothing), 546 Hero and Leander, 571 Herod, 325, 329, 356, 366 Herod Agrippa I, 603 Herostratus, 195 Herschel, William, 28, 655 Hesiod, 13, 19, 563 Hesione, 103, 122, 531 Hesperides, 187, 438 Hesperus, 187, 602 Hestia (see also Vesta), 9 Hippolyta, 18, 56, 582 death of, 51 Hippolytus, 18 Hippomenes, 568 Hirtius, 335 History of Rome, 204 History of Travel, 659 Hitler, Adolf, 277, 357 Hobgoblin, 29 Hohenheim, Theophrastus von, 602 Holland, Philemon, 618 Holofernes (Biblical), 433 Holofernes (Love's Labor's Lost), 433 Holy .
Aaron Leander Heart's Glass Ark was a bona fide tourist attraction seventy miles beyond Oswego on the lake.