BOURBON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bourbon mean? 

• BOURBON (noun)
  The noun BOURBON has 4 senses:

1. a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)

2. whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels

3. a member of the European royal family that ruled France

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

  Familiarity information: BOURBON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOURBON (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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 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 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" 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)

 Context examples 

Colourings and flavourings have been suggested as making hangovers worse, which might explain why, at the same alcohol concentration, Bourbon causes a more severe hangover than vodka.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

“He is the best marksman of all the crossbow companies and it was he who brought down the Constable de Bourbon at Brignais. I fear that your man will come by little honor with him.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, look you, in the affair at Brignais some four years back, when the companies slew James of Bourbon, and put his army to the sword, there was scarce a man of ours who had not count, baron, or knight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)