Loading page
say it: lahy-SAN-dur
lysander is a noun meaning "Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)". It carries one recorded sense.
Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)
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 lysander 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.