republican
IPA: rɪpˈʌbɫɪkʌn
noun
- Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
- A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
- (US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.
- (Britain, Ireland) An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland.
- (chiefly Ireland, now rare) A member or supporter of Fianna Fáil, a centre-right party in Ireland.
- (historical) A supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War.
- A member of Les Républicains, a right-wing party in France.
- A member of Die Republikaner, a far-right party in Germany.
adjective
- Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.
- Of or belonging to a republic.
- (US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.
- Alternative letter-case form of Republican. [(US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.]
- Alternative letter-case form of republican. [Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.]
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Examples of "republican" in Sentences
- A Democrat who acts like a Republican “is then classified as a republican.”
- A few Republican strategists said to me today, republican strategists said to me, Virginia is changing.
- This is why A REPUBLICAN Goverment would never want it's citizens to have socialized education ... they would be to smart to vote for a republican.
- She's trend right for the general election, just like Bill did, and we'll be faced with another chance to pick a Republican or someone who sounds like a republican.
- Republican dissident terror group Oghlaigh na hEireann carried out a blast bomb attack on two police officers in west Belfast, republican sources have told the Guardian.
- ALLEN HOFFENBLUM, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: This would all but guarantee that the republican nominee would get 20 extra Electoral College votes, which could certainly impact the outcome of the election.
- Republican freedom can be thought of as a kind of status: to be a free person is to enjoy the rights and privileges attached to the status of republican citizenship, whereas the paradigm of the unfree person is the slave.
- It is time that CNN and their bunch of nobody commentators present the news as an independent and not as Democrat or Republican. specially the women that sit and offer their constantly negative opinion about the republican party like Berger and Brown.
- It is amazing that the Republican party should try and play with the lives of the people of America……3/4 of the House democratic voted for this bill……but the arrogance of the republican mavericks to play Russian roulette with such disregard for the economy and the American people ….
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