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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- republick, republique (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
republic (plural republics)
- 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; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 256:
- Perhaps the great charm of a republic to the young mind is, the career which it seems to lay open to all, and whose success depends upon personal gifts; while their exercise seems more independent when devoted to the people rather than to the monarch.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? […] ”
- (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
- 1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch:
- 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.
- One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
- The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
- One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.
Derived terms[edit]
- Arab Republic of Egypt
- Argentine Republic
- banana republic
- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
- Central African Republic
- crowned republic
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Dominican Republic
- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
- federal republic
- Federal Republic of Germany
- Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Federative Republic of Brazil
- French Republic
- Hellenic Republic
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Islamic Republic of Mauritania
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Italian Republic
- Lebanese Republic
- maritime republic
- Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- parliamentary republic
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- people's republic
- People's Republic of Bangladesh
- People's Republic of Canada
- People's Republic of China
- Portuguese Republic
- presidential republic
- republican
- republicanism
- Republic County
- Republic of Albania
- Republic of Angola
- Republic of Argentina
- Republic of Armenia
- Republic of Austria
- Republic of Azerbaijan
- Republic of Benin
- Republic of Botswana
- Republic of Bulgaria
- Republic of Chad
- Republic of Chile
- Republic of China
- Republic of Colombia
- Republic of Costa Rica
- Republic of Croatia
- Republic of Cuba
- Republic of Cyprus
- Republic of Djibouti
- Republic of Estonia
- Republic of Fiji
- Republic of Finland
- Republic of Ghana
- Republic of Guatemala
- Republic of Guinea
- Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- Republic of Iceland
- Republic of India
- Republic of Indonesia
- Republic of Iraq
- Republic of Ireland
- Republic of Kenya
- Republic of Latvia
- Republic of Liberia
- Republic of Lithuania
- Republic of Malawi
- Republic of Maldives
- Republic of Mali
- Republic of Malta
- Republic of Mauritius
- Republic of Mozambique
- Republic of Namibia
- Republic of Niger
- Republic of North Macedonia
- Republic of Panama
- Republic of Paraguay
- Republic of Peru
- Republic of Poland
- Republic of Senegal
- Republic of Serbia
- Republic of Sierra Leone
- Republic of Singapore
- Republic of Slovenia
- Republic of South Africa
- Republic of Texas
- Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Philippines
- Republic of the Sudan
- Republic of Tunisia
- Republic of Turkey
- Republic of Yemen
- Republic of Zambia
- Republic of Zimbabwe
- sister republic
- Slovak Republic
- Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Somali Federal Republic
- Soviet republic
- Soviet Socialist Republic
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Togolese Republic
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- United Republic of Tanzania
Translations[edit]
a type of state
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one of the kinds of parts constituting Russia
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See also[edit]
- commonwealth
republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading[edit]
- “republic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “republic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “republic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Verb[edit]
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