republican

1. 1.

   relating to or belonging to the Republican Party

   “a Republican senator”

   “Republican party politics”
2. 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”

   “a very republican notion”

   “so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment”

   “our republican and artistic simplicity”

   Similardemocratic

Other forms of republican

plural

republicans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about republican

What does republican mean?

republican means "a member of the Republican Party". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in republican?

republican has 4 syllables: re-pub-li-can. The stress falls on "pub". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/.

What is another word for republican?

Close synonyms include Republican River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is republican a common word?

republican is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.