Stanford

[stan-ferd]

noun

1. (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.

2. a male given name.

Stanford

/ ˈstænfəd /

noun

1. Sir Charles ( Villiers ). 1852–1924, Anglo-Irish composer and conductor, who as a teacher at the Royal College of Music had much influence on the succeeding generation of composers: noted esp for his church music, oratorios, and cantatas

Example Sentences

Deborah Sivas, a professor of environmental law at Stanford’s Law School, said it’s getting harder to see a successful path forward for Sable.

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This dovetails with a recent paper from Stanford University economists.

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As for Miami’s pursuit of Harbaugh, that came almost a decade earlier, when he was coaching at Stanford.

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After winning Miss America in 1989—three years after the competition stopped releasing contestants’ measurements—she used the scholarship money to pay for her Stanford education.

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As a Stanford undergraduate, he met the NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall, not long after the latter won a victory against racial segregation in Brown v.

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