republican

See also: Republican

English

Etymology

From republic +‎ -an, partly after French républicain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/

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• Rhymes: -ʌblɪkən

Adjective

republican (comparative more republican, superlative most republican)

1. Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism. [from 17th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 222:

     Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).

2. Of or belonging to a republic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

3. Alternative letter-case form of Republican.

Translations

favoring a republic as form of government, favoring republicanism

• Armenian: հանրապետական (hy) (hanrapetakan)
• Bulgarian: републикански (republikanski)
• Catalan: republicà (ca)
• Esperanto: respublikisma
• Finnish: tasavaltalainen (fi)
• Greek: ρεπουμπλικάνος (el) (repoumplikános)
• Ido: republikista (io)
• Indonesian: republiken (id), republikan
• Irish: poblachtach, poblachtánach (Irish politics)
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• Italian: repubblicano (it)
• Manx: pobblaghtagh
• Portuguese: republicano (pt)
• Romanian: republican (ro)
• Russian: республика́нский (ru) (respublikánskij)
• Swedish: republikansk (sv)
• Ukrainian: республіка́нський (respublikánsʹkyj)
• Volapük: repüblikimik

of or belonging to a republic

• Armenian: հանրապետական (hy) (hanrapetakan)
• Bulgarian: републикански (republikanski)
• Catalan: republicà (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: republikansk
• Dutch: republikeins (nl)
• Esperanto: respublika
• Finnish: tasavaltalainen (fi)
• French: républicain (fr)
• German: republikanisch (de)
• Greek: δημοκρατικός (el) (dimokratikós)
• Hungarian: köztársasági (hu)
• Ido: republikala (io)
• Irish: poblachtach
• Italian: repubblicano (it)
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• Latvian: republikānisks
• Malay: republik
• Manx: pobblaghtagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: republikansk

  Nynorsk: republikansk

• Occitan: republican (oc)
• Portuguese: republicano (pt)
• Romanian: republican (ro)
• Russian: республика́нский (ru) (respublikánskij)
• Swedish: republikansk (sv)
• Turkish: cumhuriyet (tr)
• Ukrainian: республіка́нський (respublikánsʹkyj)
• Volapük: repüblikik (vo)

Noun

republican (plural republicans)

1. Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: anti-monarchist, antiroyalist

   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson:

     Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:

     I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.

   • 2017 June 24, David Young, “New approach needed to convince unionists about United Ireland, Adams tell conference”, in Independent.ie:

     Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.

2. A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

Translations

someone who favors a republic

• Armenian: հանրապետական (hy) (hanrapetakan)
• Bulgarian: републиканец m (republikanec)
• Catalan: republicà (ca) m, republicana (ca) f
• Dutch: republikein (nl)
• Finnish: tasavaltalainen (fi)
• French: républicain (fr) m, républicaine (fr) f
• German: Republikaner (de) m, Republikanerin f
• Hungarian: republikánus (hu), köztársaságpárti
• Indonesian: republiken (id)
• Irish: poblachtach m
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• Italian: repubblicano (it) m, repubblicana (it) f
• Malay: republikan
• Manx: pobblaghtagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: republikaner (no) m

  Nynorsk: republikanar m

• Portuguese: republicano (pt) m, republicana (pt) f
• Russian: республика́нец (ru) m (respublikánec), республика́нка (ru) f (respublikánka)
• Spanish: republicano m, republicana f
• Swedish: republikan (sv) c

See also

• republicanization

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Adjective

republican m (feminine singular republicana, masculine plural republicans, feminine plural republicanes)

1. republican

Related terms

• republica

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Romanian

Etymology

From Italian republicano or French républicain.

Adjective

republican m or n (feminine singular republicană, masculine plural republicani, feminine and neuter plural republicane)

1. republican

Declension

Declension of republican

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	republican		republicană	republicani	republicane
	definite	republicanul		republicana	republicanii	republicanele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	republican		republicane	republicani	republicane
	definite	republicanului		republicanei	republicanilor	republicanelor

Noun

republican m (plural republicani)

1. republican

Declension

Declension of republican

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) republican	republicanul	(niște) republicani	republicanii
genitive/dative	(unui) republican	republicanului	(unor) republicani	republicanilor
vocative	republicanule		republicanilor

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Spanish

Verb

republican

1. third-person plural present indicative of republicar