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1. (n.) Whig
a member of a political party in Great Britain (c1679–1832) that favored reforms and parliamentary authority.
2. Whig
a member of a U.S. political party (c1834–55) formed in opposition to the Democratic Party and favoring high tariffs and a weak presidency.
3. Whig
an American colonist who supported the American Revolution.
4. (adj.) Whig
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Whigs.
Etymology: (1635–45; earlier, a Covenanter, hence an opponent of the accession of James II; of uncert. orig., though prob. in part a shortening of whiggamaire (later whiggamore), a participant in the Whiggamore Raid, a march against the royalists in Edinburgh launched by Covenanters in 1648)
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1. (noun) Whig
a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
2. (noun) Whig
a supporter of the American Revolution
3. (noun) Whig
a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
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1. (adj) Whig
of or pertaining to the Whigs
2. (noun) Whig
acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage
3. (noun) Whig
one of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory
4. (noun) Whig
a friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist
5. (noun) Whig
one of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party
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