DOUGLAS

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• DOUGLAS (noun)
  The noun DOUGLAS has 1 sense:

1. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)

  Familiarity information: DOUGLAS used as a noun is very rare.

• DOUGLAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Douglas; Little Giant; Stephen A. Douglas; Stephen Arnold Douglas

Instance hypernyms:

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

 Context examples 

I would give the rest of my fingers to see the Douglas within arrow-flight of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A team led by Dr. Douglas Melton at Harvard University set out to transform stem cells into beta cells that could replace damaged beta cells.

(Developing Insulin-Producing Cells to Treat Diabetes, NIH)

Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and did not necessarily require an impact basin.

(Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart, NASA)

Neither Hamlet, nor Macbeth, nor Othello, nor Douglas, nor The Gamester, presented anything that could satisfy even the tragedians; and The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Wheel of Fortune, Heir at Law, and a long et cetera, were successively dismissed with yet warmer objections.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“North of Humber there is no man who would not know the handiwork of Devil Douglas, the black Lord James.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)