republican

Forms

1.Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.
- Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).
2.Of or belonging to a republic.
- The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.
3.Alternative letter-case form of Republican.
4.Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.
- There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now.
- 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.

1.Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
- Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.
- I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.
- A son of slain republicans Dominic and Mary McGlinchey has brought High Court actions claiming the State has failed to properly investigate his parents' murders.
2.Synonym of American cliff swallow.
3.Synonym of sociable weaver.
4.A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.
- The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi.

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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