Republican

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Republican \Re*pub"lic*an\ (-l?-kan), a. [F. r['e]publicain.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a republic.
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              The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named
              by the senate.                        --Macaulay.


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     2. Consonant with the principles of a republic; as,
        republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
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     {Republican party}. (U.S. Politics)
        (a) An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was
            opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its
            great leader.
        (b) One of the existing great parties. It was organized in
            1856 by a combination of voters from other parties for
            the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and
            in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Republican \Re*pub"lic*an\ (r?-p?b"l?-kan), n.
     1. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
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     2. (U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party.
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     3. (Zool.)
        (a) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build
            their nests side by side, many together.
        (b) A South African weaver bird ({Philetaerus socius}).
            These weaver birds build many nests together, under a
            large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
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     {Red republican}. See under {Red}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  republican
       adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a
              Republican senator"; "Republican party politics"
       2: 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
       n 1: a member of the Republican Party
       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
          River}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "republican":
     absolute, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous,
     bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic,
     dictatorial, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic,
     governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, matriarchal,
     matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic,
     official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary,
     patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, self-governing,
     theocratic, totalitarian
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "Republican":
     Conservative, Democrat, Labourite, Tory, Whig, heeler, loyalist,
     partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member,
     party wheelhorse, registered Democrat, registered Republican,
     regular, stalwart, ward heeler, wheelhorse