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Definition of Republic
1. Noun. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
Specialized synonyms: Weimar Republic, Parliamentary Democracy
Generic synonyms: Form Of Government, Political System
Derivative terms: Democratic, Democratize, Democratize
2. Noun. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch. "The head of state in a republic is usually a president"
Definition of Republic
1. n. Common weal.
Definition of Republic
1. Noun. A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy. ¹
2. Noun. A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate. (''archaic'') ¹
3. Noun. One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Republic
1. a constitutional form of government [n -S]
Medical Definition of Republic
1. 1. Common weal. 2. 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. In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few, constituting a government now distinctively called an aristocracy. In some there was a division of authority between an aristocracy and the whole body of the people except slaves. No existing republic recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class to govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery. Republic of letters, The collective body of literary or learned men. Origin: F. Republique, L. Respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real, and Public. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Republic
Literary usage of Republic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2006)
"Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (2003), Air Pollution and Atmospheric Deposition
in Data in the Czech republic in 2002, Czech Hydrometeorological ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"INFLUENCE OF THE LAWS UPON THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC republic IN THE
UNITED STATES Three principal causes of the maintenance of the democratic ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"SCIENCE IN THE ARGENTINE republic The Argentine republic. Written in German by
Richard Napp, assisted by several Fellow-writers, for the Central Argentine ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"At Galveston in 1900 thousands Texas and Coahuila became one state divided Out
of this calamity grew the Galveston Sea federal Mexican republic resulting in ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"The establishment of the Parthenopean republic is the last and most interesting
chapter in the history of the revolutionary era in Italy. ..."
6. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"He did not create the opportunity, but he so prepared for the contingency that
when the opportunity arose the representatives of the republic were on the ..."
7. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1848)
"How this Circumstance contributes powerfully to the Maintenance of the democratic
republic of America.—How the American Wilds are Peopled. ..."
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