say it: LAN-dow
landau is a noun meaning "Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968)
a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for landau come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.