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Representative   /rˌɛprəzˈɛntətɪv/  /rˌɛprɪzˈɛntətɪv/  /rˌɛprəzˈɛnətɪv/  /rˌɛprɪzˈɛnətɪv/   Listen
noun
Representative  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude. "A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity." "Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures."
2.
An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
3.
(Law) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another. Note: The executor or administrator is ordinarily held to be the representative of a deceased person, and is sometimes called the legal representative, or the personal representative. The heir is sometimes called the real representative of his deceased ancestor. The heirs and executors or administrators of a deceased person are sometimes compendiously described as his real and personal representatives.
4.
A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. (U.S.)
5.
(Nat.Hist.)
(a)
That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
(b)
A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.


adjective
Representative  adj.  
1.
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
2.
Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
3.
Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
4.
(Nat.Hist.)
(a)
Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(b)
Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; said of certain species and varieties.
5.
(Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.





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... hearkens to his song; she thanks him with a gesture and a smile. He has brought a momentary relief to the weariness of her sad captivity. Cast a glance on this roaming singer, this houseless rhymer; the last representative of that noble poesy born before Homer. This gentle son of poverty, seeking his bread with the strings of his viol, this Bohemian of the eleventh century, goes to regenerate barbarian society. The ...
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... conclusion of this solemn national compact, attack the general good of the principal part of the same, and such is the vast and rich kingdom of Brazil; dividing it into miserable fragments, and, in a word, attempting to tear from its bosom the representative of the executive power, and to annihilate by a stroke of the pen, all the tribunals and establishments necessary to its existence and future prosperity? This unheard-of despotism, this horrible political perjury, was certainly not merited by the good and generous Brazil. ...
— Journal of a Voyage to Brazil - And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 • Maria Graham
... holds out much chance of power or authority to any man past sixty, but the Head of the Church may be so old that he can hardly move one foot before the other, yet he is permitted to be declared the representative of the ever-working, ever-helping, ever- comforting Christ, who never knew what it was to be old! Enough, however of this strange superstition which is only one of many in the Church, and which are all the result of double or perverted sight,—I come to the last part of the text which runs, 'If therefore ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... three was heard booming from some clock tower on the twelfth day of June, 1913, when Mr. King, the Liberal representative from Somerset, was given the floor in the House of Commons. Mr. King proceeded to ...
— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
... whom B. F. Keith once called "The Big Sister of Vaudeville," and who was Vaudeville Editor of the New York Morning Telegraph before becoming General Press Representative of the Orpheum Circuit, summed up her years of experience as a critic ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page


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