republican (adj.)

  1. relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; a Republican senator; Republican party politics'

    Republican (n.)

  1. a member of the Republican Party

    [ Syn: republican ]

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

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

    [ Syn: republican , republican river ]

    republican (adj.)

  1. 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; the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government- United States Constitution; a very republican notion; so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment- Philip Marsh; our republican and artistic simplicity-Nathaniel Hawthorne

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