Republican
WordNet
adjective
(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
(2) Relating to or belonging to the Republican Party
"A Republican senator"
"Republican party politics"
noun
(3) A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
(4) An advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
(5) A member of the Republican Party
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Someone who favors a republic; an anti-monarchist.
- Someone who favors social equality and opposes aristocracy and privilege.
- Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...' (Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791). Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water - Title of a collection of essays published by the leftwing novelist H. G. Wells in 1939.
Synonyms
- anti-monarchist (1)
- anti-royalist (1)
- egalitarian (2)
- anti-fascist (4)
- rational (5)