Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 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 A. Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little Giant]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Stephen A. Douglas
    n 1: 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 A.
         Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little Giant]