Napoleon

Quick meaning: Napoleon is a noun meaning (fashion, obsolete) Clipping of Napoleon boot, a form of topboot worn by officers during the Napoleonic Wars.

Meaning

(fashion, obsolete) Clipping of Napoleon boot, a form of topboot worn by officers during the Napoleonic Wars.

More Meanings

1. (card games, uncountable) A 19th-century five-card trick-taking game simplified from euchre.
2. (card games, uncountable) Clipping of double napoleon, a form of patience/solitaire.
3. (usually admiringly derogatory) A person resembling Napoleon Bonaparte, (usually) in having come to dominate an area or sphere of activity through ruthlessness or illegality as well as surpassing ability.
4. (historical numismatics, slang) The franc germinal: a 20-franc gold coin issued under Napoleon I of France.
5. (historical numismatics, slang) Other subsequent 20-franc coins, notes, or values.
6. (historical weaponry) Clipping of Napoleon gun, a 12-pounder cannon first used by the Second French Empire.
7. (rare UK horse racing slang, obsolete) Alternative form of nap: a horse to go nap on, a sure thing, a certain winner; a prediction of such a horse; a bet on such a horse.

Example Sentences

Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump.

He [sc. McKinley] has been called the Napoleon of protection, as other men have been called Napoleons of finance.

Fascinated, Miss Manvers thrust aside a garnished plate, took a gulp of the decoction called coffee, and attacked her napoleon.

We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources, and borrowed, for that purpose, thirty thousand napoleons from the Bank of France.

Word Forms

• napoleons

Synonyms for napoleon

Depending on context, synonyms include louis, mille-feuille, millefeuille.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conqueror, monarch, dictator, emperor, autocrat, warlord.

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