republicans
- 1Plural of republican.
Lifelong republicans, the couple refused to stand for the royal toast.
Irish republicans marched through the town on Easter Sunday.
Note
A capital letter does most of the work in the plural. Lowercase republicans favor a republic as a form of government or, in Ireland and Britain, campaign for a united Ireland; capitalized Republicans belong to or back the US Republican Party. An archaic Irish use named supporters of Fianna Fáil, and bird names use it too, for the American cliff swallow and the sociable weaver.
republicans is a form of republican
republican, noun: Someone who belongs to or supports the Republican Party, which is the more right-wing of the two major American parties. Full entry
- Forms
- republicanrepublicans plural, plural
- Spelling
- republican → republicans: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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