noun
1. United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
• Syn: ↑Francis Edgar Stanley
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑inventor, ↑discoverer, ↑artificer
2. 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)
• Syn: ↑Henry M. Stanley, ↑Sir Henry Morton Stanley, ↑John Rowlands
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑journalist, ↑explorer, ↑adventurer
Useful english dictionary. 2012.