Republican

Republican (comparative more Republican, superlative most Republican)

1. (US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.

   There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now.

2. Alternative letter-case form of republican.

• Democratic, Green, Libertarian

• Liberal Republican
• Radical Republican
• Republican motherhood

Republican (plural Republicans)

1. (US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.
   • 1998 November 27, Beth Broderick as Zelda Spellman and Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, “Sabrina and the Beast”, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, season 3, episode 1, written by Danita Jones, ABC, Paramount Domestic Television:

     Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it!
     When did you become a Republican.

2. (Britain, Ireland) An Irish nationalist; a proponent of a united Ireland.
3. (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.

4. (historical) A supporter of the government or left-wing side in the Spanish Civil War.
5. A member of Les Républicains, a right-wing party in France.
6. A member of Die Republikaner, a far-right party in Germany.

• (US politics): Republicunt (vulgar, derogatory), Rethuglican (derogatory)

• Green, Libertarian, Democrat