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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:

Nouns denoting people

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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