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Republican meaning in English

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Republican

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Noun

1. republican

a member of the Republican Party

2. republican

an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)

3. republican, republican river

a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas

Adjective

4. republican

relating to or belonging to the Republican Party

Example Sentences:
'a Republican senator'
'Republican party politics'

5. republican

having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government

Example Sentences:
'the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government'
'a very republican notion'
'so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment'
'our republican and artistic simplicity'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Republican

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adjective
1. 
of, resembling, or relating to a republic
2. 
supporting or advocating a republic
noun
3. 
a supporter or advocate of a republic
adjective
1. 
of, belonging to, or relating to a Republican Party
2. 
of, belonging to, or relating to the Irish Republican Army
noun
3. 
a member or supporter of a Republican Party
4. 
a member or supporter of the Irish Republican Army

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Republican

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adjective
1. 
of, characteristic of, or having the nature of, a republic
2. 
favoring, or in accord with the nature of, a republic
3.  US; [R-]
of, belonging to, or characteristic of the Republican Party
noun
4. 
a person who favors a republican form of government
5.  US; [R-]
a member of the Republican Party

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Republican

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adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.
2. Favoring a republic as the best form of government.
3. Republican Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.
n.
1. One who favors a republic as the best form of government.
2. Republican A member of the Republican Party of the United States.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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