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BOURBON DYNASTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 dynasty" is a kind of...):
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
Meronyms (members of "Bourbon dynasty"):
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)
