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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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"Representative" Quotes from Famous Books



... five pints of port a day; altogether the best portrait of a species, which, though almost extinct, cannot yet be quite classed among the Palaeotheria, the Bang-up Oxonian. Miss Thorpe, the jilt of middling life, is, in her way, quite as good, though she has not the advantage of being the representative of a rare or a diminishing species. We fear few of our readers, however they may admire the naivete, will admit the truth of poor John Morland's postscript, "I can never expect ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... the Church. And this, known as the Donation of Pepin, was the beginning of the temporal power of the popes in Italy. So when Pepin resolved to assume the crown, Pope Zacharias in gratitude sanctioned the audacious act, by sending his representative to place the symbol of power upon the head of this faithful ...
— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele
... was set aside with empty honors.* In 1866 he was appointed to replace Senor Hidalgo as representative of Mexico to France. General Miramon and General Marquez were likewise sent away in honorable exile; and by degrees the more conspicuous among the reactionary leaders were put out ...
— Maximilian in Mexico - A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 • Sara Yorke Stevenson
... soon to be put to an effective test; for the coalition of Jugurtha and Bocchus, which the campaign might have been meant to prevent, turned out to be its immediate result. The Moor was still hesitating between peace and war—looking still, it may be, for another bid from the representative of Rome, and waiting for the moment when he might compel the attention of Metellus's rude successor, who preferred the precautions of war to those of diplomacy—when the Numidian king, in despair at this ruinous passivity and at the loss of the magnificent strategic chance that was being ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge
... is the attitude of the Suitors toward such a view? Eurymachus is the name of their speaker now, manifestly a representative man of their kind. He derides the prophet: "Go home, old man, and forecast for thy children!" He is a scoffer and skeptic; truly a spokesman of the Suitors in their relation to the Gods, in whom they can have no living faith; through long wickedness they imagine that there ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider


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