Definition of representative

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Representative (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress..

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Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium..
Congress :: Congress (n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest..
Cortes :: Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain..
Representative :: Representative (n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways..
Representation :: Representation (n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress..
Lophiomys :: Lophiomys (n.) A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special family (Lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement..
Notable :: Notable (n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body..
Digammated :: Digammated (a.) Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /..
Representative :: Representative (n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another..
Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities..
Minister :: Minister (n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business..
Iconology :: Iconology (n.) The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
Privilege :: Privilege (v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest..
Representer :: Representer (n.) A representative.
Representative :: Representative (n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
Democracy :: Democracy (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic..
Convocation :: Convocation (n.) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs..
Fixture :: Fixture (n.) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others..
Reichsrath :: Reichsrath (n.) The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives..
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