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BOURBON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bourbon" is a kind of...):
whiskey; whisky (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)
Holonyms ("bourbon" is a substance of...):
julep; mint julep (bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily
Synonyms:
Bourbon; Bourbon dynasty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Bourbon" is a kind of...):
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
Meronyms (members of "Bourbon"):
Bourbon (a member of the European royal family that ruled France)
Henry IV; Henry of Navarre; Henry the Great (king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A member of the European royal family that ruled France
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bourbon" is a kind of...):
ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)
Holonyms ("Bourbon" is a member of...):
Bourbon; Bourbon dynasty (a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Bourbon" is a kind of...):
extreme right-winger; reactionary; ultraconservative (an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism)
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