republican

Meanings

Adjective

• Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.
• Of or belonging to a republic.
• Relating to the U.S. Republican Party

Noun

• Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
• A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

Related

Similar words

• anti-monarchist
• antiroyalist

Origin

• From republic + -an, partly after French républicain.