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re·pub·lic (ri pub′lik)

noun

    1. a state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote (the electorate) and is exercised by representatives elected, directly or indirectly, by them and responsible to them
    2. the form of government of such a state or nation
    3. a specified republican regime of a nation the Fifth Republic of France
  2. any group whose members are regarded as having a certain equality or common aims, pursuits, etc. the republic of letters
  3. a state or nation with a president as its titular head
  4. any of the constituent territorial and political units of the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia, etc.

Etymology: MFr république < L respublica < res, thing, affair, interest (see real) + publica, fem. of publicus, public

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republic Synonyms

republic

n.

democracy, democratic state, constitutional government, commonwealth, self-government, representative government, government by popular sovereignty; see also government 2.


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republic Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • USSR: All the republics of the former USSR joined in March 1992.

Possessives

  • worker: In Finland an independent workers ' republic was proclaimed.

Converse of object

  • proclaim: Local Serb leaders proclaim a new republic separate from Bosnia.

Adjective modifier

  • Soviet: In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, several attempts to steal or smuggle nuclear material have been documented.

Noun used with modifier

  • ex-soviet: But the ex-Soviet republic is a country of surprises, with good restaurants, cool bars and friendly locals notable amid the poverty.
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   This republic has been much more powerful than it is at present, as it is still likelier, to sink than increase in its dominions.

-Addison,Joseph

   The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

-Anthony, Susan B(rownell)

The French Revolution is merely the herald of a far greaterand much more solemn revolution, whichwill be the last† The hour has come for founding the Republic of equalsöthat great refuge open to every man.

-Babeuf, Fran c° ois Noe«  l

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