Republican vs. Libertarian

Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.

Of or belonging to a republic.

Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.

A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

Of or pertaining to a republic.

Example: ‘The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.’;

Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.

One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

A member of the Republican party.

The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.

a member of the Republican Party

an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)

a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas

relating to or belonging to the Republican Party;

Example: ‘a Republican senator’; ‘Republican party politics’;

having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government;

Example: ‘the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government’; ‘a very republican notion’; ‘so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment’; ‘our republican and artistic simplicity’;

(of a form of government, constitution, etc.) belonging to or characteristic of a republic

Example: ‘a republican government’;

advocating republican government

Example: ‘the republican movement’;

(in the US) supporting the Republican Party.

an advocate of republican government

Example: ‘in the old days, the argument between radical-reform monarchists and the straight republicans was academic’;

(in the US) a member or supporter of the Republican Party.

an advocate of a united Ireland.

One who advocates liberty, either generally or in relation to a specific issue.

A believer in a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental regulation, intervention, and oversight both in matters of the economy (‘free market’) and in personal behavior where no one’s rights are being violated or threatened; also, a ‘classical liberal’, akin to an ‘anarcho-capitalist’.

A left-libertarian, an antiauthoritarian believer in both individual freedom and social justice (social equality and mutual aid), such as a social anarchist.

(philosophy) A believer in the freedom of the thinking beings to choose their own destiny, i.e. a believer in free will as opposed to those who believe the future is predetermined.

Having the beliefs of libertarians; having a relative tendency towards liberty.

(dated) Relating to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

someone who believes the doctrine of free will

an adherent of libertarianism

Example: ‘libertarian philosophy’;

a person who advocates civil liberty.

a person who believes in free will.