English adjective: republican | |||
1. | republican relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | ||
Samples | A Republican senator. Republican party politics. | ||
2. | republican 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 | ||
Samples | 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. Our republican and artistic simplicity. | ||
Similar | democratic | ||
Antonyms | undemocratic | ||
English noun: Republican | |||
1. | Republican (person) a member of the Republican Party | ||
Broader (hypernym) | pol, political leader, politician, politico | ||
Member meronym | GOP, Republican Party | ||
2. | republican (person) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | ||
3. | Republican (object) a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas | ||
Synonyms | Republican River | ||
Instance hypernym | river | ||
Part meronym | Centennial State, CO, Colorado, Cornhusker State, Kansas, KS, NE, Nebraska, Sunflower State | ||