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re·pub·lic

(rĭ-pŭb′lĭk)

a. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.

b. A nation that has such a political order.

a. 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.

b. A nation that has such a political order.

3. often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.

4. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.

5. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.

[French république, from Old French, from Latin rēspūblica : rēs, thing; see rē- in Indo-European roots + pūblica, feminine of pūblicus, of the people; see public.]

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republic

(rɪˈpʌblɪk)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a form of government in which the people or their elected representatives possess the supreme power

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a political or national unit possessing such a form of government

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a constitutional form in which the head of state is an elected or nominated president

4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any community or group that resembles a political republic in that its members or elements exhibit a general equality, shared interests, etc: the republic of letters.

[C17: from French république, from Latin rēspublica literally: the public thing, from rēs thing + publica public]

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re•pub•lic

(rɪˈpʌb lɪk)

n.

1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.

2. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch and is usu. an elected or nominated president.

3. the form of government of such a state.

4. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.

[1595–1605; < French république, Middle French < Latin rēs pūblica public affairs, the state, a free state]

republic

A democratic state or form of government in which the head of state is elected rather than holding hereditary office.

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Noun	1.	republic - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them democracy, commonwealth Weimar Republic - the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919; "The Weimar Republic was overthrown in 1933 and replaced by the Third Reich" parliamentary democracy - a democracy having a parliament form of government, political system - the members of a social organization who are in power
	2.	republic - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president" form of government, political system - the members of a social organization who are in power

Translations

جُمْهورِيَّةجُمْهورِيَّه

republika

republik

tasavalta

गणराज्य

republika

köztársaság

lýðveldilÿîveldi

repubblica

共和政体

공화국

respublica

respublikarespublikinisrespublikonasrespublikonųrespublikos

republică

republika

republik

สาธารณรัฐ

cumhuriyet

nền cộng hòa

共和国

republic

[rɪˈpʌblɪk] N → república f

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republic

[rɪˈpʌblɪk] n → république f
the Republic of Ireland → la République d'Irlande
The Irish Republic → La République irlandaise

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republic

n → Republik f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

republic

[rɪˈpʌblɪk] n → repubblica

republic

(rəˈpablik) noun

(a country with) a form of government in which there is no king or queen, the power of government, law-making etc being given to one or more elected representatives (eg a president, members of a parliament etc). The United States is a republic – the United Kingdom is not.

reˈpublican adjective

1. of a republic. a republican form of government.

2. (also noun) (a person) who supports a republican form of government. He is not a monarchist – he is a republican; my republican friends.

republic

→ جُمْهورِيَّة republika republik Republik δημοκρατία república tasavalta république republika repubblica 共和政体 공화국 republiek republikk republika república республика republik สาธารณรัฐ cumhuriyet nền cộng hòa 共和国

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Citizen Gabelle hinted, with infinite delicacy and politeness, that in the pressure of business imposed on the Tribunal by the multitude of enemies of the Republic with which it had to deal, he had been slightly overlooked in his prison of the Abbaye--in fact, had rather passed out of the Tribunal's patriotic remembrance--until three days ago; when he had been summoned before it, and had been set at liberty on the Jury's declaring themselves satisfied that the accusation against him was answered, as to himself, by the surrender of the citizen Evremonde, called Darnay.

Five were to be tried together, next, as enemies of the Republic, forasmuch as they had not assisted it by word or deed.

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And the idea of good (Republic) may without violence be converted into the Supreme Being, who 'because He was good' created all things (Tim.).

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Most of the mountains are arable, and even the prairies, in this section of the republic, are of deep alluvion.

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On the shores of Africa I see a republic,--a republic formed of picked men, who, by energy and self-educating force, have, in many cases, individually, raised themselves above a condition of slavery.

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As it rarely happens that public opinion, in its whimsical flights, does not identify a principle with a man, thus the people saw the personification of the Republic in the two stern figures of the brothers De Witt, those Romans of Holland, spurning to pander to the fancies of the mob, and wedding themselves with unbending fidelity to liberty without licentiousness, and prosperity without the waste of superfluity; on the other hand, the Stadtholderate recalled to the popular mind the grave and thoughtful image of the young Prince William of Orange.

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This Venice, which was a haughty, invincible, magnificent Republic for nearly fourteen hundred years; whose armies compelled the world's applause whenever and wherever they battled; whose navies well nigh held dominion of the seas, and whose merchant fleets whitened the remotest oceans with their sails and loaded these piers with the products of every clime, is fallen a prey to poverty, neglect and melancholy decay.

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THE Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them.

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A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

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Carthage, though a commercial republic, was the aggressor in the very war that ended in her destruction.

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All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.

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The sword in his hand remains as sharp as ever upon both its edges; and he may well go on playing his royal game of quoits with hurricanes, tossing them over from the continent of republics to the continent of kingdoms, in the assurance that both the new republics and the old kingdoms, the heat of fire and the strength of iron, with the untold generations of audacious men, shall crumble to dust at the steps of his throne, and pass away, and be forgotten before his own rule comes to an end.