1. representative - Noun
2. representative - Adjective
3. representative - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. Vivienne Westwood
That fatal drollery called a representative government. Benjamin Disraeli
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
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. Don Tapscott
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism. Aldo Leopold
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. Colin Powell