Republican
[rɪ'pʌblɪkən]
Definition
(noun.) a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas.
(noun.) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy).
(noun.) a member of the Republican Party.
(adj.) 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 .
(adj.) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; 'a Republican senator'; 'Republican party politics' .
Editor: Paula--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a republic.
(a.) Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
(n.) One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
(n.) A member of the Republican party.
(n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
(n.) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They had no sense of the other possibility, the gulf of the republican extremists, that yawned at their feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We need only note two of their names, Carnot, who was an honest republican, and Barras, who was conspicuously a rogue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was in fact rather more republican than Britain, but its republicanism was more aristocratic in form. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Papacy seemed to be balancing its traditional reliance upon the faithful Habsburgs against its quarrel with republican France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The republican character of the private corporations called the schools or academies at Athens was far more stable and independent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Four years later the Republican party was successful in electing its candidate to the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But once inside the Republican lines it went very slowly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Moreover, we know nowadays that even a universal education of this sort supplies only the basis for a healthy republican state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, thou hast kissed a good Republican; something new in thy family; remember it! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- My mother was an honorable woman and a good Catholic and they shot her with my father because of the politics of my father who was a Republican. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The late Jacob Hess, a famous New York Republican politician, was a member of the commission appointed to put the wires underground in New York City, in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The second brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I did not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the wide awakes --Republicans--in their rooms, and superintended their drill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was the first great political campaign for the Republicans in their canvass of 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The republicans are fast making a tyrant of their own flesh and blood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Many republicans wanted it because they wished to see the kindred people of Belgium liberated from the Austrian yoke. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The same determined patriots and good republicans as yesterday and the day before, and to-morrow and the day after. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Is it possible that Republicans, Democrats and Socialists clip the wings more than free spirits can allow? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As soon as Roosevelt had thrown off the burden of preserving a false harmony among irreconcilable Republicans, he issued a platform full of definiteness and square dealing with many issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And he set himself to weaken the republicans whose fundamental convictions he was planning to outrage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was some talk that the Republicans would try to blow up the bridges, if there was to be an offensive. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Atkinson,[445] What astonished the Allies most of all was the number and the velocity of the Republicans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had small doubt in his struggle with the republicans, where the moral superiority lay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But no one need go abroad for actual experience: in the United States Senate during the Taft administration there were really three parties--Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So the reformers of California, the Lorimerites of Chicago, and the Barnes Republicans of Albany all use the name of Lincoln for their political associations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Red republicans--that's what I call 'em. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Karl