republic
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Alternative forms [edit]
- republick (obsolete)
- republique (obsolete)
Etymology [edit]
From French république (“republic”), derived from Latin rēs publica (“republic”), from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: re‧pub‧lic
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.
- (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
- 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. — Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace
- One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
- The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
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a type of state
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one of the kinds of parts constituting Russia
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External links [edit]
- republic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- republic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- republic at OneLook Dictionary Search
