Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
- noun A nation that has such a political order.
- noun A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
- noun A nation that has such a political order.
- noun A specific republican government of a nation.
- noun An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
- noun A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The commonwealth; the state.
- noun A commonwealth; a government in which the executive power is vested in a person or persons chosen directly or indirectly by the body of citizens entitled to vote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Common weal.
- noun A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf.
Democracy , 2. - noun The collective body of literary or learned men.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
state wheresovereignty rests with thepeople or theirrepresentatives , rather than with amonarch oremperor ; acountry with nomonarchy . - noun archaic A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the
executive andlegislative branches of government are separate. - noun One of the
subdivisions constitutingRussia . Seeoblast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
- noun a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Star Wars the old republic * not knight of the old republic* little on WoW and empire total war my pc specs is hp pavilion p6110y dual core processor 2. 6ghz
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Now, I know why Beck uses the term republic. it makes tea bagger proud
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Those fighting for the term republic have a distinctly different view of the role of government than those fighting for democracy.
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Across the road, a white banner with the word republic fluttered from the front fence of an equally small dwelling.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Across the road, a white banner with the word republic fluttered from the front fence of an equally small dwelling.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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The word republic comes from the Latin rêspْblica: rês, “thing” (or more broadly “the will”) + pْblica, the feminine of pْblicus, meaning “of the people.”
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This empire, he was obliged to say, for the term republic had gone out of fashion.
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How far the term republic was applicable to the Spartan form of government I will not pretend to say, but when Lycurgus was called upon to re-construct its legislation, his first act was to make the necessary third power, and he appointed a senate.
Diary in America, Series Two Frederick Marryat 1820
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Indeed, it must be acknowledged, that the term republic is of very vague application in every language.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Indeed, it must be acknowledged, that the term republic is of very vague application in every language.
Letters 1760
Teneo commented on the word republic
A republic is as strong as its people allow it to be, so do we not have a republic today, for I haven't said anyone can force me.
March 20, 2011