Leander
pronunciation
How to pronounce Leander in British English:
UK [li':ændə]
How to pronounce Leander in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- (Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her
Word Origin
- 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-).