WHIG

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• WHIG (noun)
  The noun WHIG has 3 senses:

1. a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories

2. a supporter of the American Revolution

3. a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: WHIG used as a noun is uncommon.

• WHIG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Whig" is a kind of...):

Englishman (a man who is a native or inhabitant of England)

liberal; liberalist; progressive (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A supporter of the American Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Whig" is a kind of...):

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Whig" is a kind of...):

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

 Context examples 

A Whig I started, and a Whig I shall remain.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I confess, that, after I had been a little too copious in talking of my own beloved country, of our trade and wars by sea and land, of our schisms in religion, and parties in the state; the prejudices of his education prevailed so far, that he could not forbear taking me up in his right hand, and stroking me gently with the other, after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I was a whig or tory?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And thence we went to the Mall in St. James’s Park, and thence to Brookes’s, the great Whig club, and thence again to Watier’s, where the men of fashion used to gamble.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)