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republican   (TTS Sound)

The noun republican has 3 senses

• Republican -- (a member of the Republican Party)


• republican -- (an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy))


• Republican, Republican River -- (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)

The adj republican has 2 senses

• republican -- (relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics")


• republican -- (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)