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Definition of Stanley

1. Noun. United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918).

2. Noun. Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904).

Definition of Stanley

1. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Old English) ¹

2. Proper noun. Any of several places, outside England named for persons with the surname. ¹

3. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. Popular in early 20th century. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Stanley

1. Edward, English surgeon, 1793-1862. See: Stanley's cervical ligaments. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanley

Standard German Standard Habbie Standard Mandarin Standard Model Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's Index Standish Stanford Stanford-Binet intelligence scale Stanford University

Stanford White Stanhope Stanislaus Stanislav Stanislavsky Stanley (current term) Stanley's cervical ligaments Stanley Baldwin Stanley Cohen Stanley Frank Musial

Stanley Kubrick Stanley Smith Stevens Stanley Steamer Stanley Way Stanley Way procedure Stanley knife Stanley knives Stanleya Stanleya pinnata Stannius

Literary usage of Stanley

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"A Boat Journey round Stanley Pool. By the Rev. TJ COMBER, FRGS ENCLOSED I send you a sketch-map which I have made on returning from a boating trip round ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"Crudgington and Bentley to Stanley R Pool, on the Congo. i our June number a brief reference* was made to the important .journey performed early in the ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"CHARLES Stanley by his Will, dated the *18th of May 1791, devised all his messuages, lands, &c. at Aughton and other places in the county of Lancaster to ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"He believed that Stanley would not return without settling the problem as to the tract of ... It would be remembered that Mr. Stanley left the camp on the ..."

5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"This was in November, 1869; and Stanley was told to go to Africa by a devious route, ... Last of all, and bringing up the rear, was Stanley himself. ..."

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