WHIG meaning: Political party opposing absolute monarchy

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word whig:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

Whig, Whig: Merriam-Webster.com
Whig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Whig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Whig: Collins English Dictionary
Whig: Vocabulary.com
Whig, whig: Wordnik
Whig, whig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Whig, whig: Wiktionary
Whig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Whig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
whig: Infoplease Dictionary
Whig: Dictionary.com
Whig: Online Etymology Dictionary
Whig (American Revolution), Whig (British political faction), Whig (British political party), Whig (United States), Whig (disambiguation), Whig (political party), Whig: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Whig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
whig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Whig: Rhymezone
Whig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
whig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
WHIG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
whig: Free Dictionary
whig: Mnemonic Dictionary
Whig: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Whig: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Whig (disambiguation), Whig: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

WHIG, WHIG, WHIG: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
WHIG: Acronym Finder
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Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

whig: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Whig)

▸ noun:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
▸ noun:  buttermilk
▸ verb:  (transitive) Urge forward; drive briskly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Jog along; move or work briskly.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Weird out or disturb someone.
▸ noun:  (UK politics, historical) A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party.
▸ noun:  (UK politics, rare) A member (especially a politician) of the former Liberal Party or its successor, the Liberal Democrats.
▸ noun:  (US politics, historical) An advocate of war against, or independence from, Britain during the American Revolution.
▸ noun:  (US politics, historical) A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.

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tory, conservative, monarchist, reactionary, more...

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whig party, whig and tory, Whig history, True Whig Party, Whig Junto, more...

Adjectives:

old, good, staunch, ardent, zealous, true, former, moderate, prominent, line, strong

Colors:

white, green, gold, silver, blue, more...

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