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Republican   /rɪpˈəblɪkən/  /ripˈəbləkən/  /ripˈəblɪkən/   Listen
noun
Republican  n.  
1.
One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
2.
(U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party.
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
(b)
A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
Red republican. See under Red.



adjective
Republican  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a republic. "The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate."
2.
Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
Republican party. (U.S. Politics)
(a)
An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its great leader.
(b)
One of the existing great parties. It was organized in 1856 by a combination of voters from other parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.






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"Republican" Quotes from Famous Books



... process of the compromise measures, became shattered and mixed, especially in the Southern States, with former Whigs, and was to a great extent thereafter sectionalized. The different opposing political elements united against it and organized and established the Republican party, which triumphed in the election of Lincoln in 1860. The administration which followed and was inaugurated in 1861 differed in essential particulars from either of the preceding political organizations. Men of opposing principles—Centralists, who like Hamilton and patriots ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... abstained from offering any encouragement to the emigrants or support to the enemies of the French Republic. Van de Spiegel had even expressed to De Maulde, the French ambassador, a desire to establish friendly relations with the Republican government. But the Jacobins looked upon the United Provinces as the dependent of their enemies England and Prussia; and, when after the execution of the king the English ambassador was recalled from Paris, ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... Livy's honesty and frankness, so far as his intent might govern such qualities, I think no stronger evidence in his favour can be found than his avowed republican leanings at the court of Augustus and his just estimate of Cicero's character in the face of the favour of a prince by whose consent the great orator had been assassinated. Above all, it must have been a fearless and honest man who could swing the scourge with which ...
— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius

... were confiscated and sold. Now this attainted traitor had a younger brother who was actually serving in the British army in America, his regiment sharing in the battles of Bunker Hill, Brandywine, Monmouth, &c. But the Major was a younger son; and, in virtue of that republican merit, he escaped the consequences of his adhesion to the service of the crown; and after the revolution, the cadet returned to his native country, took quiet possession of a property of no inconsiderable ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... Hall, Hamilton and others, in their attempts to describe the working of the democratic principle in the United States, have been unfavorably influenced by their opposite political predilections. On the other hand, Miss Martineau, who has strong republican sympathies, has not, at all times, been sufficiently careful and discriminating in the facts and details of her spirited and ...
— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge


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