| seward | (n) 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), Syn. William Henry Seward |
| seward peninsula | (n) a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle |
| seward's folly | (n) the transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia |