Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stanley

2 senses of stanley

Sense 1
Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley -- (United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 2
Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> journalist -- (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
       INSTANCE OF=> explorer, adventurer -- (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))