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republican
adjective
noun
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
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ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən
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adjective
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
“{'source': 'United States Constitution', 'text': 'the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government'}”
adjective
relating to or belonging to the Republican Party
“a Republican senator”
noun
an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)
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{'source': 'United States Constitution', 'text': 'the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government'}
a very republican notion
{'source': 'Philip Marsh', 'text': 'so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment'}
{'source': 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', 'text': 'our republican and artistic simplicity'}
a Republican senator
Republican party politics