Meaning of republican

(adj) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics"

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

(noun) a member of the Republican Party

an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)

a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas