Standard Lemma guide

GOP

name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • General-American: /ˌdʒi oʊ ˈpi/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɒp/
  • General-American: /ɡɒp/
  • rhymes with -ɒp

1

name

Meaning 1

The Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Acronym of group of pictures.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

Qualifier: video compression

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, signal-processing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Synonym of gopnik.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gopnik

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Republican Party

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: party, political party

History

Etymology

Initialism of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party, in use by 1884.

Acronym of group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.

Borrowed from Russian го́п (góp).