Representative

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.