Republicanadj/ɹɨˈpʌ.blɨ.kɨn/

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  governmentpoliticsOf or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.

  • There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now.
  • Republican Erik Yassenoff, 38, was born in Upper Arlington, went to school there, served on city council, and, if elected, would bring to the Statehouse a breadth of knowledge about policy and state government rarely seen from a freshman member.
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  Of or pertaining to the Republic of China's tenure on the Chinese mainland (1912-1949).

Republicannoun/ɹɨˈpʌ.blɨ.kɨn/

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  governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.

  • Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it! When did you become a Republican.
  • At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped. Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who to vote for would like to know what the real differences between you two are." Gore: "I think the real difference between Governor Bush and I is that he is in fact a Republican, and I am currently a Democrat." Moderator: "That doesn’t really answer the question, I am talking about issues." Bush: "No, he is right. I am a Republican, and he is a Democrat."
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  An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland, particularly one who supports armed struggle to achieve this.

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  archaicA member or supporter of Fianna Fáil, a centre-right party in Ireland.

  • It was confident both that the Republicans would never put it out to put Cosgrave in, and that Fine Gael was equally against the Republicans.
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  historicalA supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War.

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  A member of Les Républicains, a right-wing party in France.

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  A member of Die Republikaner, a far-right party in Germany.

Republicanname/ɹɨˈpʌ.blɨ.kɨn/

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  A place in the United States:

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  A place in the United States:

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  A place in the United States:

republicanadj/ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/

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  Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.

  • [Editor David W. Blight said:] Until his death in April 1817 (ten months before Douglass’s birth), Bingham remained a remarkable mixture of at least three elements. He held to a devout Congregationalist faith and Puritan sensibility (believing in human depravity and the sovereignty of God, and dressing in old eighteenth century style, with cocked hat and silver-buckled shoes). He was a staunch Jeffersonian in a state where few existed (he never put any money in a bank, and seems to have embodied Jefferson’s egalitarian faith in the capacities of common folk). Finally, Bingham saw the early American republic as a new political beginning for humankind, and his more than one million schoolbooks sold across the land were designed to produce republican citizens. The Columbian Orator was an elocution manual as well as a reader for school children in the new republic.
  • Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).
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  Of or belonging to a republic.

  • The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

republicannoun/ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/

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  Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.

  • 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...'
  • I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.
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  Synonym of American cliff swallow.

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  Synonym of sociable weaver.