LANDAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Landau mean? 

• LANDAU (noun)
  The noun LANDAU has 2 senses:

1. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968)

2. a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately

  Familiarity information: LANDAU used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Landau; Lev Davidovich Landau

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("landau" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

 Context examples 

They will have their barouche-landau, of course, which holds four perfectly; and therefore, without saying any thing of our carriage, we should be able to explore the different beauties extremely well.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

People with von Hippel-Landau disease have an increased risk of developing hemangioblastomas.

(Cerebellar hemangioblastoma, NCI Dictionary)

A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall have her very often indeed while they are with me, and I dare say we shall sometimes find a seat for her in the barouche-landau in some of our exploring parties.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, when the time draws on, I shall decidedly recommend their bringing the barouche-landau; it will be so very much preferable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We explored to King's-Weston twice last summer, in that way, most delightfully, just after their first having the barouche-landau.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)