American English pronunciation
How to pronounce republican
IPA transcription: [ɹɪ'pʌblɪkən]
Pronunciation variants: [ɹɪ'pʌblɪkən][ɹi'pʌbləkən][ɹi'pʌblɪkən]
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Noun
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a member of the Republican Party
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an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
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a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
Adjective
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relating to or belonging to the Republican Party
“a Republican senator”
“Republican party politics”
Adjective
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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; - United States Constitution; ; - Philip Marsh; -Nathaniel Hawthorne
“the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government”
“a very republican notion”
“so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment”
“our republican and artistic simplicity”
Usage examples
- He is a member of the Republican Turkish Party.
- Former Representative Bob Schaffer of Fort Collins was the Republican nominee.
- He left Dole's staff to work for Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.
- The newspaper's editorial stance and readership, while originally republican, is now unionist.
- In October the same year, the Spanish Republican Army was reorganized.
- Donald Trump carried the county by the second-largest margin for a Republican since statehood.
- The district is currently represented by Republican Kevin Yoder.
- The district is currently represented by Republican Bill Flores.
- He was initially elected as a Progressive but later joined the Republican Party.
- It accepts both Democratic and Republican members on its volunteer board of directors.