Republican

A place in the United States:

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.
    • There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now.
    • Republican Erik Yassenoff, 38, was born in Upper Arlington, went to school there, served on city council, and, if elected, would bring to the Statehouse a breadth of knowledge about policy and state government rarely...
    • But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf. - 2020 May 11, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel...

    Coordinate Terms: Democratic Green Libertarian

  2. Of or pertaining to the Republic of China's tenure on the Chinese mainland (1912-1949).

    Coordinate Terms: Kuomintang

  3. Alternative letter-case form of republican.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Latin rēs Proto-Italic *poplosder. Old Latin poplusder. Old Latin poplicus Latin pūblicus Latin pūblica Latin rēspūblica Latin rēpūblicālbor. Middle French republiquebor. English republic Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an French républicainder. English republican English Republican From republican (“favoring a republic”).

Forms

more Republican most Republican

Proper noun

  1. A place in the United States:

    1. A township in Jefferson County, Indiana.

    2. A township in Clay County, Kansas.

    3. An unincorporated community in Bertie County, North Carolina.

Derived

defeatican Demopublican establishment Republican Goldwater Republican grassroots Republican Liberal Republican Lincoln Republican log cabin Republican National Republican Obamacan Progressive Republican Radical Republican Reagan Republican Refucklican Repooplican Republicanism Republicanitis Republican motherhood Republican Queen Republicant Republicoon Republicrap Republicrat Republicunt

Noun

  1. A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.
    • Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it! When did you become a Republican. - 1998 November 27, Danita Jones, “Sabrina and the Beast”, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sabrina Spellman (Beth...
    • At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped. Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who...
    • The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi. - 2025 February 4, Shania Shelton, Morgan Rimmer, “Senate votes to...

    Coordinate Terms: Democrat Green Libertarian Independent

  2. An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland.
  3. A member or supporter of Fianna Fáil, a centre-right party in Ireland.
    • It was confident both that the Republicans would never put it out to put Cosgrave in, and that Fine Gael was equally against the Republicans. - 1970, The Republic of Ireland: an hypothesis in eight chapters and two...
  4. A supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War.
  5. A member of Les Républicains, a right-wing party in France.
  6. A member of Die Republikaner, a far-right party in Germany.

Forms

Republicans

Synonyms

Repooplican Republicant Republicon Republicunt Republitard Retardican Rethuglican