republican meaning and definition

REPUBLICAN noun

Definition of Republican (noun)

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
   • synonyms: Republican River

REPUBLICAN adjective

Definition of republican (adjective)

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