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Meaning of republican

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  republican
      adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a
             Republican senator"; "Republican party politics"
      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"- United States Constitution;
         "a very republican notion"; "so little republican and so much
         aristocratic sentiment"- Philip Marsh; "our republican and
         artistic simplicity"-Nathaniel Hawthorne
      n 1: a member of the Republican Party
      2: an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a
         monarchy)
      3: a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern
         Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas [syn:
         {Republican}, {Republican River}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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