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

1 sense of douglas

Sense 1
Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little Giant -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> politician, politico, pol, political leader -- (a person active in party politics)