Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.
- adjective Favoring a republic as the best form of government.
- adjective Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.
- noun One who favors a republic as the best form of government.
- noun A member of the Republican Party of the United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or pertaining to a republic or common wealth: as, a republican constitution or government.
- Consonant to the principles of a republic: as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
- Of or pertaining to or favoring the Republican party: as, a Republican senator. See below.
- In ornithology, living in community; nesting or breeding in common: as, the republican or sociable grosbeak, Philetærus socius; the republican swallow, formerly called
Hirundo respublicana . See cuts underhive-nest . - In United States history:
- noun One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
- noun A member of a republican party; specifically , in United States history, a member of the Republican party.
- noun In ornithology, the republican swallow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a republic.
- adjective Consonant with the principles of a republic
- adjective (U.S. Politics) 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.
- noun One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
- noun (U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party.
- noun The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
- noun A South African weaver bird (
Philetærus socius ). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw. - noun See under
Red .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective 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
- noun a member of the Republican Party
- noun a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
- adjective relating to or belonging to the Republican Party
- noun an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Republican dissident terror group Oghlaigh na hEireann carried out a blast bomb attack on two police officers in west Belfast, republican sources have told the Guardian.
Dissident terror group 'behind Belfast grenade attack on policemen' Henry McDonald 2010
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A Democrat who acts like a Republican “is then classified as a republican.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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A Democrat who acts like a Republican “is then classified as a republican.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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This is why A REPUBLICAN Goverment would never want it's citizens to have socialized education ... they would be to smart to vote for a republican.
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She's trend right for the general election, just like Bill did, and we'll be faced with another chance to pick a Republican or someone who sounds like a republican.
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A few Republican strategists said to me today, republican strategists said to me, Virginia is changing.
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It is time that CNN and their bunch of nobody commentators present the news as an independent and not as Democrat or Republican. specially the women that sit and offer their constantly negative opinion about the republican party like Berger and Brown.
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It is amazing that the Republican party should try and play with the lives of the people of America……3/4 of the House democratic voted for this bill……but the arrogance of the republican mavericks to play Russian roulette with such disregard for the economy and the American people ….
A reckless vote 2008
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ALLEN HOFFENBLUM, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: This would all but guarantee that the republican nominee would get 20 extra Electoral College votes, which could certainly impact the outcome of the election.
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Republican freedom can be thought of as a kind of status: to be a free person is to enjoy the rights and privileges attached to the status of republican citizenship, whereas the paradigm of the unfree person is the slave.
Positive and Negative Liberty Carter, Ian 2007
uselessness commented on the word republican
"I do like Republicans. I like macho men. I want a man who exudes manliness when he walks into a room without saying anything. I want a man who can strangle a puma to death with his bare hands. Feisty!"
October 13, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word republican
Wow. By extension, all Republicans can strangle pumas while exuding manliness?
Eew.
October 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word republican
How do you exude manliness? I didn't know that stuff seeped.
October 13, 2007
uselessness commented on the word republican
It's like sweat. It secretes from my pores.
October 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word republican
So you need a man-towel, then.
October 13, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word republican
Do pumas exude anything? Republicans, maybe?
October 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word republican
I wouldn't want to see that.
October 13, 2007
whichbe commented on the word republican
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
September 12, 2008
john commented on the word republican
Easy, whichbe: the little baby Jesus.
September 12, 2008
sionnach commented on the word republican
I want a puma who can strangle a Republican to death with his bare paws. Then eat him. Yummy!
September 12, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word republican
I make the baby Jesus cry.
*sly grin*
September 12, 2008
whichbe commented on the word republican
I thought this article was really well written and on-point. My only criticism is that the author pays little note to the obvious effect of the huge infrastructure and support system of right-wing media, brainwashing through repetition, etc.
September 12, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word republican
And the incredible irony that they've got everyone convinced, somehow, that "the media" is actually liberal. While that may have been true forty or fifty years ago, it isn't anymore.
September 12, 2008
whichbe commented on the word republican
I think there are plenty of elements of so-called "liberal bias" in the media, however, those that would call themselves "liberal" aren't even half as organized or aligned. Right-wing media explicitly distributes things like "message of the day"--talking points for the echo chamber.
Truly, though, as I've said elsewhere on Wordie, it makes me so irritated that things are always framed as RIGHT/LEFT. Like this ridiculous thing. While this amuses the symbolic/dual-hemisphere human brain metaphorist in me, it's pure delusion. When you sample the majority of people, ISSUE BY ISSUE, you find that we are unique slowflakes, and our beliefs are all over the map. By forcing all these multi-shaped pegs into 1-or-2 hole options, it hurts the ability to have quality discourse or an evolution of thought--a diversity of ideas is possibily the best means to stimulate a greater 'synthesis' (in the dialectic sense).
In the current post-convention state of the 2008 presidential election, if I were the Obama camp, I would be jumping *all over* the positioning of McCain. Virtually every single speech at the RNC dropped the term "small town values" (a dog-whistle rebranding of family values with that rural-verus-city, culture war touch)--but by doing this, Republicans are basically maligning the larger population centers in two ways: one, suggesting that the so-called upstanding Christian values don't exist in cities, and two, that whatever so-called non-Christian values in cities just aren't worth honoring or respecting as much.
If this 'partisan' approach is indeed intentional, it would suggest that seperationist strategy is advantageous to the GOP (trying to knock off some 'Small Town' people from Obama's 'uniter' positioning)... Obama could nail him on this if his campaign is smart enough to utilize it.
September 12, 2008
whichbe commented on the word republican
Speech Wars: Follow the Candidates' Words
September 13, 2008
shadesofinsanity commented on the word republican
My least favorite word. ;)
February 1, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word republican
Republicans vs. Yankees? Seen here.
September 10, 2009