DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Democratic-Republican Party mean? 

• DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY (noun)
  The noun DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a former major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; opposed the old Federalist party; favored a strict interpretation of the constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government

  Familiarity information: DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; opposed the old Federalist party; favored a strict interpretation of the constitution in order to limit the powers of the federal government

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Democratic-Republican Party" is a kind of...):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)