what does Seward’s Folly mean?
SEWARD’S FOLLY as NOUN
- Meaning
- the transaction in 1867 in which the United States secretary of state William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia
Hypernyms(s) Seward’s Folly is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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