Republic

//ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A small city in Republic County, Kansas, United States.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.
  3. 3
    A city in Christian County and Greene County, Missouri, United States.
  4. 4
    A village in Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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  1. 6
    A small city, the county seat of Ferry County, Washington, United States.
  2. 7
    An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
  3. 8
    The Roman Republic.

    "The general adoption of the system for all free men came towards the end of the Republic."

Noun
  1. 1
    A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.

    "The United States is a republic; Norway is a constitutional monarchy."

  2. 2
    a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them wordnet
  3. 3
    A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate. archaic

    "Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.[…]Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism[…]. None of the ancient so-called "republics" knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism."

  4. 4
    a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch wordnet
  5. 5
    One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

    "The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast."

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  1. 6
    One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.

Etymology

From Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.

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