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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



... competitions, pranks and frolics and all in all a book of which most boy readers will have no criticism to make."—Springfield Republican. ...
— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson
... stormed San Juan Hill, and got into the newspapers. Made up his mind he would stay there. R. became governor of New York State with ambitions. Being a wealthy man, and capable of contributing to the cause of the Republican party, he was elected vice-president of the United States. A hand other than his own made him president. Here his newspaper career really began. R. first opened a three-ring circus in the White House, wore a rough rider hat, and told the country what a great president he was. The voters ...
— Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date - Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be • Anonymous
... card, as, for instance, "Captain James Smith," "Judge Henry Gray," "Rev. Thomas Jones, D. D." The card of an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court at Washington reads "Mr. Justice Holmes." Military or complimentary titles are not used, nor are coats of arms. In this republican country it is considered an affectation and bad taste so to make use of them. Political and judicial titles are also omitted, as are academic titles, such as ...
— The Etiquette of To-day • Edith B. Ordway
... The Republican Party was put out of power because of failure, practical failure and moral failure; because it had served special interests and not the country at large; because, under the leadership of its preferred and established guides, of those who ...
— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson
... can do no good by making him and yourself uncomfortable. Indeed, a truculent person does not succeed in asserting his equality. The prince has been so long in that kind of life that he probably has thought through the mistake under which the republican stranger is laboring, and considers him a goose. Moreover, an American may reflect that he will probably have very little in life to do with princes, and that his interview with a prince has been an "experience." It would be about as foolish to assert one's dignity ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various


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