If you're representative of some group, you're typical, you’re a lot like most of the others. You might also be a representative for your group; you were elected to act on behalf of those you represent.
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
Noun
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"
Noun
a member of the United States House of Representatives
Noun
a person who represents others
Noun
an advocate who represents someone else''s policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective
standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"
Adjective S.
serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play"
a.
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
a.
Bearing the character or power of another; acting
for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
a.
Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as
deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
a.
Serving or fitted to present the full characters of
the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
a.
Similar in general appearance, structure, and
habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and
varieties.
a.
Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was
originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties;
representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
n.
One who, or that which, represents (anything); that
which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
n.
An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the
place of another, or others, being invested with his or their
authority.
n.
One who represents, or stands in the place of,
another.
n.
A member of the lower or popular house in a State
legislature, or in the national Congress.
n.
That which presents the full character of the type
of a group.
n.
A species or variety which, in any region, takes
the place of a similar one in another region.
Representative
Representative
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.
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
Usage Examples
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
A representative is free delivery she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
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