REPUBLICAN PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republican Party mean? 

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

1. the younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLICAN PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

GOP; Republican Party

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Republican Party"):

Republican (a member of the Republican Party)

 Context examples 

His poem won the first prize of ten dollars, his campaign song the second prize of five dollars, his essay on the principles of the Republican Party the first prize of twenty-five dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)