Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gustavus_adolphus

1 sense of gustavus adolphus

Sense 1
Gustavus, Gustavus II, Gustavus Adolphus -- (king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632))
       INSTANCE OF=> king, male monarch, Rex -- (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)