| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to a republic. | ||||||
| 2. | Consonant with the principles of a republic;
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| n. | 1. | One who favors or prefers a republican form of government. | ||||||
| 2. | (U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party. | |||||||
| 3. | (Zool.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
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| Noun | 1. | Republican - a member of the Republican Party |
| 2. | republican - an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | |
| 3. | Republican - a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas Synonyms: Republican River | |
| Adj. | 1. | republican - relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics" |
| 2. | republican - 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 |