Republican - Definition
republican
adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a
Republican senator"; "Republican party politics"
2: 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
n 1: a member of the Republican Party
2: an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a
monarchy)
3: a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern
Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas [syn:
Republican, Republican River]