- representative - serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play"
Antonyms: atypical, untypical (indirect, via typical)
- representative - standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"
Antonyms: nonrepresentative, unsymbolic
- representative - 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"
Antonym: undemocratic (indirect, via democratic)
- representative - a person who represents others
--1 is a kind of negotiator, negotiant, treater
--1 has particulars:agent; alderman; assemblyman; assemblywoman; contact, middleman; delegate; emissary, envoy; head of state, chief of state; personal representative; resident commissioner; union representative - spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice - an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
--2 is a kind of advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
--2 has particulars:ambassador; flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack; mouthpiece, mouth; spokesman; spokeswoman; traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman - congressman, congresswoman, representative - a member of the United States House of Representatives
--3 is a kind of legislator
--3 has particulars: rep- example, illustration, instance, representative - an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"
--4 is a kind of information
--4 has particulars:apology, excuse; exception; precedent, case in point; quintessence; sample; specimen - spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice - an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"