Representative

[reprɪ'zentətɪv] or ['rɛprɪ'zɛntətɪv]

Definition

(noun.) a person who represents others.

(adj.) being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; 'representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people' .

(adj.) standing for something else; 'the bald eagle is representative of the United States' .

(adj.) serving to represent or typify; 'representative moviegoers'; 'a representative modern play' .

Editor: Ozzie--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.

(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.

(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.

(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.

(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.

(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.

(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.

(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.

(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.

(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.

(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

Editor: Rosanne

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Figurative, typical, symbolical.[2]. Delegated, acting for others.

a. Delegate, deputy, substitute, agent, proxy, LOCUM TENENS.

Typed by Juan

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Agent, commissioner, proxy, deputy, substitute, embodiment, personation,delegate, vicar, vicegerent, principal, sovereign, Constituency

ANT:Autocrat, dictator

SYN:Figurative, symbolical, delegated_to_others,[See FIGURATIVE_and_REPRESENT]

SYN:Likeness, personation, semblance, exhibition,[See LIKENESS]

Checked by Darren

Unserious Contents or Definition

n. In national politics a member of the Lower House in this world and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

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Examples

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