Leander
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (Greek mythology) The lover of Hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet her, and finally was drowned.
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):: Act IV, Scene I:
- Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night.
- A male given name, also of a Spanish sixth century saint.
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