| Noun | 1. | Republican - a member of the Republican PartyGOP, Republican Party - the younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party | |
| 2. | republican - an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | |
| 3. | Republican - a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansasriver - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles" | |
| Adj. | 1. | republican - relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics" | |
| 2. | 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 Hawthornedemocratic - characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality; "democratic government"; "a democratic country"; "a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"- George du Maurier | |