Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun seward's_folly

1 sense of seward's folly

Sense 1
Seward's Folly -- (the transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia)
       INSTANCE OF=> transaction, dealing, dealings -- (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me")