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

4 senses of bourbon

Sense 1
Bourbon -- (a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South))
       => reactionary, ultraconservative, extreme right-winger -- (an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism)

Sense 2
bourbon -- (whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels)
       => whiskey, whisky -- (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)

Sense 3
Bourbon -- (a member of the European royal family that ruled France)
       => ruler, swayer -- (a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe")

Sense 4
Bourbon, Bourbon dynasty -- (a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily)
       => dynasty -- (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)