stanley Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
    Francis Edgar Stanley.
  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)
    John Rowlands; Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Henry M. Stanley.

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