Republican
See also: republican
English edit
Adjective edit
Republican (comparative more Republican, superlative most Republican)
- (US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.
- Coordinate terms: Democratic, Green, Libertarian
- There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now.
- Alternative letter-case form of republican.
Derived terms edit
- establishment Republican
- Goldwater Republican
- grassroots Republican
- Liberal Republican
- Lincoln Republican
- log cabin Republican
- National Republican
- Progressive Republican
- Radical Republican
- Reagan Republican
- Repooplican
- Republicanism
- Republican motherhood
- Republican Party
- Republicant
- Republicoon
- Republicunt
- RepubliKKKan
- Retardican
- Retardlican
- Rethuglican
- Retrumplican
- RINO / Republican In Name Only
- Rockefeller Republican
- Roosevelt Republican
- Tea Party Republican
- Trumplican
- Trumpublican
Translations edit
pertaining to the Republican Party
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republican — see republican
Noun edit
Republican (plural Republicans)
- (US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.
- Coordinate terms: Democrat, Green, Libertarian, Independent
- 1998 November 27, Danita Jones, “Sabrina and the Beast”, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sabrina Spellman (Beth Broderick as Zelda Spellman and Melissa Joan Hart), Paramount Domestic Television, via ABC:
- Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it!
When did you become a Republican.
- 2000 October 3, Tim Paluch, “Gore vs. Bush: That's Debatable”, in Iowa State Daily:
- At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped.
Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who to vote for would like to know what the real differences between you two are."
Gore: "I think the real difference between Governor Bush and I is that he is in fact a Republican, and I am currently a Democrat."
Moderator: "That doesn’t really answer the question, I am talking about issues."
Bush: "No, he is right. I am a Republican, and he is a Democrat."
- (British, Ireland) An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland.
- (chiefly Ireland, now rare) A member or supporter of Fianna Fáil, a centre-right party in Ireland.
- 1970, The Republic of Ireland: an hypothesis in eight chapters and two intermissions:
- It was confident both that the Republicans would never put it out to put Cosgrave in, and that Fine Gael was equally against the Republicans.
- (historical) A supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War.
- A member of Les Républicains, a right-wing party in France.
- A member of Die Republikaner, a far-right party in Germany.
Synonyms edit
- (Member or supporter of the US Republican Party): Republicunt, Retardican, Rethuglican (all vulgar, derogatory); see also Fascist (inexact, derogatory)
Translations edit
supporter of the Republican Party of the U.S.
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proponent of a united Ireland
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supporter of the left wing in the Spanish civil war
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