Republic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
  • n. A nation that has such a political order.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A nation that has such a political order.
  • n. A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
  • n. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
  • n. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
  • n. A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
  • n. One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Common weal.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The commonwealth; the state.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
  • n. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
  • Variant
    democracy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stat   
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    nonpublic    public   
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    empire    monarchy    commonwealth    democracy    colony    dynasty    constitution    institution    nation    civilization