republic
See also: Republic
English
Alternative forms
- republick (obsolete)
- republique (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French republique (“republic”), borrowed from Latin rēpūblicā, ablative singular of rēspūblica (“republic”), from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɹɪˈpʌblɪk]
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: re‧pub‧lic
Noun
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.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0088:
- “[…] 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 ? […] ”
- (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.
- The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
Derived terms
Translations
a type of state
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one of the kinds of parts constituting Russia
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See also
- commonwealth
republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- republic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- republic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- republic at OneLook Dictionary Search
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