noun
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)
• Syn: ↑Douglas, ↑Stephen Arnold Douglas, ↑Little Giant
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑politician, ↑politico, ↑pol, ↑political leader
Useful english dictionary. 2012.