What is another word for leander?

Pronunciation: [liːˈandə] (IPA)

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What are the hypernyms for Leander?

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Usage examples for Leander

Despite his connection with the Hypnerotomachia, which, however, was printed on commission, Aldus concerned himself little with book-illustrations, and if the miserable cuts which he put into his edition of Hero and leander of Musaeus are fair specimens of what he thought sufficiently good when left to himself, he was well advised in holding aloof from them.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 69, 88, 108-10, 127, 138, 139, 141, 166, 171 leander de S. Martino, Father, 33 n.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
One of these, leander van Ess, had been a Roman Catholic priest; and although a zealous promoter of Christianity in the face of persecution, and favored with a more than ordinary degree of spiritual light, he had thought it right not altogether to forsake that communion, but remained amongst the Romanists to do them good.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley

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