republic
See also: Republic
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- republick (obsolete)
- republique (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French république (“republic”), derived from Latin rēs publica (“republic”), 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.
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The United States is a republic; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- “[…] 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 ? […] ”
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- (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.
- 1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
- One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
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The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
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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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- republic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- republic at OneLook Dictionary Search