leland stanford

1. 1.

   United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)

   SynonymsStanford

   Broaderbusinessman

Questions about leland stanford

What does leland stanford mean?

leland stanford means "United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)".

What is another word for leland stanford?

Close synonyms include Stanford. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leland stanford a common word?

leland stanford is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.