Republican Party

English

Etymology

The name was proposed at the first public meeting of the anti-Nebraska movement on March 20, 1854, at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, and partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party.

Proper noun

the Republican Party

(US politics) A right-wing conservative political party in the United States.
Synonym: GOP

Translations

political party in the United States

Chinese:
Cantonese: 共和黨／共和党 (gung⁶ wo⁴ dong²)

Mandarin: 共和黨／共和党 (zh) (Gònghédǎng)
French: Parti républicain (fr) m
German: Republikanische Partei
Japanese: 共和党 (ja) (きょうわとう, Kyōwatō)
Korean: 공화당(共和黨) (gonghwadang)
Russian: Республика́нская па́ртия f (Respublikánskaja pártija)
Spanish: Partido Republicano m
Vietnamese: Đảng Cộng hòa

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