Synonyms:
republican
Meaning: relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
Republican
Meaning: a member of the Republican Party
Synonyms:
republican
Meaning: an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
Usage examples
"I, at least, am a Republican!"
On the Republican side everything seemed to depend upon the action of the Progressives.
1864--Unanimous nomination as Republican presidential candidate for re-election, June 7.
Representative Volstead, of Minnesota, Republican, came the closest of all to real courage in his protest:-
The new republican materials, in the persons of the commons, on whose virtue depends the freedom of England.
The very idea was appalling to Representative Stafford of Wisconsin, anti-suffrage Republican, who joined in the Democratic protests.
No doubt the defeat was a great disappointment to one who had served his country and the Republican party for so many years with very little political reward.
Attention was focussed on the two rival presidential candidates, Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican nominee, upon whom the new Woman's Party worked diligently
1856--Organized the Republican Party and became its chief; nominated vice-president, but was not chosen by its first convention; worked for the Fremont-Dayton presidential ticket.
Again, in 1880, General Garfield, the Republican candidate for President, carried the State of New York by a plurality of about 20,000, without which he could not have been elected.