Definition of "Leander"

Leander

/liːˈændɚ/

proper noun
1. (Greek mythology) The lover of Hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet her, and finally was drowned.
  Quotations
  Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night.
  c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek, also of a Spanish sixth century saint.
3. A city in Williamson County, Texas