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.
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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]
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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
- I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were dangerous now only to their own side, and the papal representative spent an unpleasant night hiding from them in the forest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The engines and paddle wheels of the Adirondack are distinctly representative of the modern American side wheel steamer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The States-General was far less representative of the whole body of citizens than was the English Parliament even in its Venetian days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Your teacher shall be your representative. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The moment a man takes office he has no right to be the representative of one group alone. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Many thousands of these have been patented, but the Janney coupling, patented April 29, 1873, No. 138,405, is the most representative type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Of the many patents granted for such machines the most representative ones are 243,287, 250,096, 267,014, 384,825, 450,624, 465,018, 480,256, 495,426, 489,484. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The quarrel between the representatives of the two interests is easily explicable historically. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Quite a number of the American representatives brought their wives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As the sole remaining representatives of their decayed family, the persons of both were almost sacred in her eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My son is one of the last representatives of two old families. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They stood the representatives of their races. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The representatives of New York could with justice drink the health of the young inventor, whose system is one of the greatest boons the city has ever had conferred upon it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- MUHLENBERG, _Speaker of the House of Representatives_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But an _internal_ tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The representatives of the Barnacle Chorus dropped in next, and Mr Merdle's physician dropped in next. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The German Diet was like the States-General or like a parliament without the presence of elected representatives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were no newspapers,[242] and there was practically no use of elected representatives in the popular assemblies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Lora