Meaning & Definition of Republican in English

1. A member of the republican party

2. An advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)

3. A tributary of the kansas river that flows from eastern colorado eastward through nebraska and kansas

1. Relating to or belonging to the republican party

• "A republican senator"

• "Republican party politics"

2. 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