BOURBON DYNASTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bourbon dynasty mean? 

• BOURBON DYNASTY (noun)
  The noun BOURBON DYNASTY has 1 sense:

1. a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily

  Familiarity information: BOURBON DYNASTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOURBON DYNASTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bourbon; Bourbon dynasty

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)