representative

representative is a 14-letter English word with 19 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

14 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
2. adjective. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
3. adjective. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
4. adjective. Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
5. adjective. Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
6. adjective. Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
7. noun. One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
8. noun. An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
9. noun. One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
10. noun. A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
11. noun. That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
12. noun. A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
13. noun. an item of information that is typical of a class or group

    "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"

    "there is an example on page 10"

    Synonyms: example, illustration, instance

14. noun. a member of the United States House of Representatives

    Synonyms: congressman, congresswoman

15. noun. a person who represents others
16. noun. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

    "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"

    Synonyms: interpreter, spokesperson, voice

17. adjective. being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives

    "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people"

18. adjective. standing for something else

    "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"

19. adjective. serving to represent or typify

    "representative moviegoers"

    "a representative modern play"

Synonyms

example, illustration, instance, congressman, congresswoman, interpreter, spokesperson, voice

Common word forms

representatives

Words from these letters

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