LYSANDER

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• LYSANDER (noun)
  The noun LYSANDER has 1 sense:

1. Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)

  Familiarity information: LYSANDER used as a noun is very rare.

• LYSANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spartan general who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (died in 395 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

 Context examples 

Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which he unlocked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel Lysander Stark.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He brought up a card, too, with the name of ‘Colonel Lysander Stark’ engraved upon it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Colonel Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a butcher’s cleaver in the other.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)