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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Leander

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, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
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: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.561108 N, 97.860301 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 78641
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Leander

Leander is one the protagonists in the story of Hero and Leander in Greek mythology.

Leander may also refer to:

Leander (video game)

Leander is a computer game for the Commodore Amiga developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Psygnosis in 1991. It was the first game to be developed by Traveller's Tales.

Leander is likened to an earlier Psygnosis game Shadow of the Beast released in 1989. It was designed to run on the earliest Amigas with only 512KB of Chip RAM, such as the Amiga 1000 and A500, which pushed the then 6 years old OCS chipset to its limits.

The original version was developed on the Amiga, then it was converted by Philipp Wyatt for W.J.S Design on the Atari ST. A year later it was ported to the Sega Mega Drive as The Legend of Galahad and published by Electronics Arts.

Leander (Capital MetroRail station)

Leander is a Capital MetroRail commuter rail station and park and ride in Leander, Texas. The park and ride portion of it was built in 2007 and is located on Highway 183 just north of FM 2243 and is the northern terminus of the Red Line. Leander is one of two stations located within Williamson County alongside Lakeline as opposed to Travis County which contains the other seven locations. Leander Station includes a Park & Ride with 600 spaces. With Lakeline serving as a midday and Saturday terminus for many trains in service, Leander is only serviced by the Red Line during weekday rush hour and late Friday nights.

Leander (given name)

Leander is a given name. The most famous bearer of the name is mythological, from the story of Hero and Leander.

People named Leander include:

  • Leander of Seville (c. 534–600 or 601), Catholic saint and bishop who converted the son of the Visigothic king from Arianism
  • Leander Babcock (1811– 64), United States Representative from New York
  • Leander Clark (1823–1910), American businessman, politician and Union Army officer during the American Civil War
  • Leander Cox (1812– 65), United States Representative from Kentucky
  • Leander Czerny (1859–1944), Czech entomologist
  • Leander Ditscheiner (1839–1905), Austrian physicist and mathematician
  • Leander F. Frisby (1825– 89), American politician, lawyer and Wisconsin Attorney General
  • Leander Haußmann (born 1959), German theatre and film director
  • Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917), British colonial statesman best known for the Jameson Raid on the Transvaal Republic in Africa
  • Leander Jordan (born 1977), American National Football League offensive tackle
  • Leander Kahney (born 1965), American journalist and author
  • Leander J. McCormick 1819–1900), American inventor, manufacturer, philanthropist and businessman
  • L. Hamilton McCormick (1859–1934), American author, inventor, art collector and sculptor, son of the above
  • Leander H. McNelly (1844–1877), Confederate officer and Texas Ranger captain
  • Leander Paes (born 1973), Indian tennis player
  • Leander Perez (1891–1969), American Democratic Party political boss in Louisiana
  • Leander Richardson (1856–1918), American journalist, playwright and theatrical writer
  • Leander J. Talbott (1849–1924), American realtor and politician, former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
  • Lee Talbott (Leander James Talbott, Jr.) (1887–1954), American track and field athlete
  • Leander Tomarkin (1895–1967), Swiss imposter who claimed to have invented a miracle medicine
  • Leander Watts, author of young adult literature

Fictional characters include:

  • Leander Sydnor, in the television series The Wire
  • Leander Wapshot, in the novel The Wapshot Chronicle and its sequel by John Cheever
Leander (surname)

Leander is the surname of:

  • Börje Leander (1918–2003), Swedish footballer
  • Helena Leander (born 1982), Swedish politician
  • Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
  • Mike Leander (1941–1996), English arranger and record producer for Decca Records
  • Richard Leander, pseudonym of Richard von Volkmann (1830–1889), German surgeon and poet
  • Zarah Leander (1907–1981), Swedish actress

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.