Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.
- adj. Favoring a republic as the best form of government.
- adj. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.
- n. One who favors a republic as the best form of government.
- n. A member of the Republican Party of the United States.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the nature of or pertaining to a republic or common wealth: as, a republican constitution or government.
- Consonant to the principles of a republic: as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
- Of or pertaining to or favoring the Republican party: as, a Republican senator. See below.
- In ornithology, living in community; nesting or breeding in common: as, the republican or sociable grosbeak, Philetærus socius; the republican swallow, formerly called Hirundo respublicana. See cuts under hive-nest.
- In United States history: The usual name of the Democratic party (in full Democratic-Republican party) during the years following 1792–3: it replaced the name Anti-Federal, and was replaced by the name Democratic. See
Democratic party , under democratic. - n. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
- n. A member of a republican party; specifically , in United States history, a member of the Republican party.
- n. In ornithology, the republican swallow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a republic.
- adj. Consonant with the principles of a republic
- n. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
- n. (U.S.Politics) 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 (Philetærus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
- n. a member of the Republican Party
- n. a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
- adj. relating to or belonging to the Republican Party
- n. an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
Etymologies
- From republic + -an, partly after French républicain. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Republican dissident terror group Oghlaigh na hEireann carried out a blast bomb attack on two police officers in west Belfast, republican sources have told the Guardian.”
The Guardian: Dissident terror group 'behind Belfast grenade attack on policemen'
“A Democrat who acts like a Republican “is then classified as a republican.””
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
“This is why A REPUBLICAN Goverment would never want it's citizens to have socialized education ... they would be to smart to vote for a republican.”
“She's trend right for the general election, just like Bill did, and we'll be faced with another chance to pick a Republican or someone who sounds like a republican.”
“It is time that CNN and their bunch of nobody commentators present the news as an independent and not as Democrat or Republican. specially the women that sit and offer their constantly negative opinion about the republican party like Berger and Brown.”
“It is amazing that the Republican party should try and play with the lives of the people of America……3/4 of the House democratic voted for this bill……but the arrogance of the republican mavericks to play Russian roulette with such disregard for the economy and the American people ….”
“A few Republican strategists said to me today, republican strategists said to me, Virginia is changing.”
“ALLEN HOFFENBLUM, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: This would all but guarantee that the republican nominee would get 20 extra Electoral College votes, which could certainly impact the outcome of the election.”
“Republican freedom can be thought of as a kind of status: to be a free person is to enjoy the rights and privileges attached to the status of republican citizenship, whereas the paradigm of the unfree person is the slave.”
“WHIT AYRES, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER: I think the race is wide open, John, on the republican side.”
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Interesting words
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
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Chit Chat
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Keeping Secrets
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newspaper names
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for republican.
chained_bear Republicans vs. Yankees? Seen here. Sep 9, 2009
shadesofinsanity My least favorite word. ;) Feb 1, 2009
whichbe Speech Wars: Follow the Candidates' Words Sep 13, 2008
whichbe I think there are plenty of elements of so-called "liberal bias" in the media, however, those that would call themselves "liberal" aren't even half as organized or aligned. Right-wing media explicitly distributes things like "message of the day"--talking points for the echo chamber.
Truly, though, as I've said elsewhere on Wordie, it makes me so irritated that things are always framed as RIGHT/LEFT. Like this ridiculous thing. While this amuses the symbolic/dual-hemisphere human brain metaphorist in me, it's pure delusion. When you sample the majority of people, ISSUE BY ISSUE, you find that we are unique slowflakes, and our beliefs are all over the map. By forcing all these multi-shaped pegs into 1-or-2 hole options, it hurts the ability to have quality discourse or an evolution of thought--a diversity of ideas is possibily the best means to stimulate a greater 'synthesis' (in the dialectic sense).
In the current post-convention state of the 2008 presidential election, if I were the Obama camp, I would be jumping *all over* the positioning of McCain. Virtually every single speech at the RNC dropped the term "small town values" (a dog-whistle rebranding of family values with that rural-verus-city, culture war touch)--but by doing this, Republicans are basically maligning the larger population centers in two ways: one, suggesting that the so-called upstanding Christian values don't exist in cities, and two, that whatever so-called non-Christian values in cities just aren't worth honoring or respecting as much.
If this 'partisan' approach is indeed intentional, it would suggest that seperationist strategy is advantageous to the GOP (trying to knock off some 'Small Town' people from Obama's 'uniter' positioning)... Obama could nail him on this if his campaign is smart enough to utilize it. Sep 12, 2008
chained_bear And the incredible irony that they've got everyone convinced, somehow, that "the media" is actually liberal. While that may have been true forty or fifty years ago, it isn't anymore. Sep 12, 2008
whichbe I thought this article was really well written and on-point. My only criticism is that the author pays little note to the obvious effect of the huge infrastructure and support system of right-wing media, brainwashing through repetition, etc. Sep 12, 2008
chained_bear I make the baby Jesus cry.
*sly grin* Sep 12, 2008
sionnach I want a puma who can strangle a Republican to death with his bare paws. Then eat him. Yummy! Sep 12, 2008
john Easy, whichbe: the little baby Jesus. Sep 12, 2008
whichbe WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? Sep 12, 2008
reesetee I wouldn't want to see that. Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear Do pumas exude anything? Republicans, maybe? Oct 12, 2007
reesetee So you need a man-towel, then. Oct 12, 2007
uselessness It's like sweat. It secretes from my pores. Oct 12, 2007
reesetee How do you exude manliness? I didn't know that stuff seeped. Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear Wow. By extension, all Republicans can strangle pumas while exuding manliness?
Eew. Oct 12, 2007
uselessness "I do like Republicans. I like macho men. I want a man who exudes manliness when he walks into a room without saying anything. I want a man who can strangle a puma to death with his bare hands. Feisty!" Oct 12, 2007