republican
adjective
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
- a very republican notion
- so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment
Similar word(s): democratic
noun
1. a member of the Republican Party
Definition categories: person, pol, politician, politico
2. an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
Definition categories: person, advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
3. a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
Definition categories: object