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 [syn: {Republican}]

2: an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a

monarchy)

3: a tributary of the Kansas River [syn: {Republican}, {Republican

River}]