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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Republican \Re*pub"lic*an\ (-l?-kan), a. [F. r['e]publicain.]
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Of or pertaining to a republic.
The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.
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Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners. Republican party. (U.S. Politics)
An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its great leader.
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.
Republican \Re*pub"lic*an\ (r?-p?b"l?-kan), n.
One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
(U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party.
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(Zo["o]l.)
The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
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A South African weaver bird ( Philet[ae]rus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
Red republican. See under Red.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1712, "belonging to a republic, of the nature of a republic, consonant to the principles of a republic," from republic + -an. The French republican calendar was in use from Nov. 26, 1793 to Dec. 31, 1805.
"one who favors a republic or republican principles" (or, as Johnson puts it, "One who thinks a commonwealth without monarchy the best government"), 1690s; see from republican (adj.). With capital R-, in reference to a member of a specific U.S. political party (the Anti-Federalists) from 1782, though this was not the ancestor of the modern U.S. Republican Party, which dates from 1854.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government. (from 17th c.) 2 Of or belonging to a republic. (from 17th c.) n. 1 Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. (from 17th c.) 2 A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.
WordNet
adj. relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics"
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
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Republican can refer to:
- An advocate of a republic, a form of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law
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Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or against monarchy; the opposite of monarchism
- Republicanism in Australia
- Republicanism in Barbados
- Republicanism in Canada
- Republicanism in Ireland
- Republicanism in Morocco
- Republicanism in the Netherlands
- Republicanism in New Zealand
- Republicanism in Spain
- Republicanism in Sweden
- Republicanism in Turkey
- Republicanism in the United Kingdom
- Republicanism in the United States
- Classical republicanism, republicanism as formulated in the Renaissance
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Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or against monarchy; the opposite of monarchism
- A member of a Republican Party:
- List of Republican Parties
- Republican Party (United States), one of the two main parties in the U.S.
- Fianna Fáil, a conservative political party in Ireland
- The Republicans (France), the main centre-right political party in France
- List of Republican People's Parties
- Institutions or supporters of particular governments that called themselves republics, including:
- List of republics
- Roman Republic, as well as supporters of the Republic during the Roman Empire
- Second Spanish Republic, during the Spanish Civil War, as well as its supporters
- Various French Republics, most notably the First Republic established during the French Revolution and the Second Republic, the first post-Revolution republic in France
Publications:
- The Republican, a British newspaper established as Sherwin's Political Register by Richard Carlile in 1817 and renamed in 1819
- The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), a newspaper published in Springfield, Massachusetts
- The Woodville Republican, a weekly newspaper published in Woodville, Mississippi
Places:
- Republican City, Nebraska, a village in Nebraska, United States
- Republican River, a river in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas in the United States
Usage examples of "republican".
A second article was approved by the committee alleging perjury in the Jones deposition with a lone Republican defecting.
I returned to Washington that afternoon and was asked by Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to be the liaison for the Republican senators to the fledgling medical and law enforcement investigation into the anthrax exposure at the Hart building.
The organization would oversee the early phase of the occupation and Garner would eventually be succeeded by a more prominent political appointee, such as a Republican former state governor.
Edmunds referred were the appointees of President Johnson, and every one of them had been confirmed by the Senate of the United States when the Republicans had more than two-thirds of the body.
According to one or two enthusiastic historians, the Baron de Batz was the chief agent in a vast network of conspiracy, entirely supported by foreign money--both English and Austrian--and which had for its object the overthrow of the Republican Government and the restoration of the monarchy in France.
The civil offices of consul, of proconsul, of censor, and of tribune, by the union of which it had been formed, betrayed to the people its republican extraction.
On the other hand, there were Republicans in that Body who sturdily met the bluster of the Southern Fire-eaters with frank and courageous words expressing their full convictions on the situation and their belief that Concessions could not be made and that Compromises were mere waste paper.
Congress with reasonable promptness passed the bill in both Houses for the admission of Colorado, though it was opposed by the more radical class of Republicans because negroes were excluded from the right of suffrage.
As in the case of Colorado the constitution excluded the negro from the right of suffrage, and for that reason a very considerable proportion of the Republicans of each branch voted against the bill.
Oliver North and others supposedly told some racist or homophobic jokes at a Republican dinner?
I can tell you the Republicans at the Hydropathic are not innocents, such as you describe the people at Knockraw.
Bethel and Cornish, two Independents and republicans, and of consequence deeply engaged with the malecontents, were chosen by a majority of voices.
Bonaparte, who seemed to acquire confidence from the presence of those who were about him, said a great deal about the agitation which prevailed among the republicans, and expressed himself in very decided terms against the Manege Club.
APCs--but the Americans came away with a great deal of respect for the Republican Guards, who fought on despite being outnumbered, outgunned, and outmatched in every way.
After that, Kurdish resistance largely collapsed and Republican Guard task forces were able to push out along the main roads quickly and without significant casualties, overrunning even the distant city of as-Sulaymaniyyah in northeastern Iraq just a few days later.