Definition of Representative

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Representative

Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.

Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.

Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.

Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.

Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.

One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.

An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.

One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.

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

That which presents the full character of the type of a group.

A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

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Representative Quotations

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke

That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Daniel Webster

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Vivienne Westwood

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Walter Lippmann

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster

I'm the audience's representative on earth.
Michael Caine

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
Sidney Poitier

Representative Translations

representative in Afrikaans is verteenwoordiger
representative in Danish is delegeret
representative in Dutch is gedeputeerde, afgevaardigde
representative in Italian is rappresentante
representative in Latin is responsal
representative in Portuguese is representante
representative in Spanish is substituto, representante
representative in Swedish is representant, representativ, ombud

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