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Noun: Seward  soo-u(r)d
  1. United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)
    - William H. Seward, William Henry Seward

Type of: pol [N. Amer, informal], political leader, politician, politico [informal], pollie [Austral, informal], polly [Austral, informal]

Encyclopedia: Seward, Minnesota