republican
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
republicans
plural
republicans
Britannica Dictionary definition of REPUBLICAN
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Republican
:
a member of the Republican party of the U.S.
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compare democrat 2
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Our state representative is a Republican.
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The state's voters are mostly Republicans.
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a person who believes in or supports a republican form of government
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Republican
:
a person from Northern Ireland who believes that Northern Ireland should be part of the Republic of Ireland rather than the United Kingdom
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opposite loyalist
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republican
/rɪˈpʌblɪkən/
adjective
2
republican
/rɪˈpʌblɪkən/
adjective
Britannica Dictionary definition of REPUBLICAN
[more republican; most republican]
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Republican
US
:
of or relating to one of the two major political parties in the U.S.
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compare democratic 2
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Republican candidates/proposals/voters
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the leader of the Republican Party
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relating to or based on a form of government in which representatives are elected and there is no king or queen
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republican reforms
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a republican government
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moderate/conservative Republicanism
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Roman republicanism
