Audio Help [ri-puhb-lik] Pronunciation Key | 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. | any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth. |
| 3. | a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state. |
| 4. | (initial capital letter ) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Compare First Republic, Second Republic, Third Republic, Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic. |
| 5. | (initial capital letter, italics ) a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato dealing with the composition and structure of the ideal state. |
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Republic
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n.
[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
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| 1. | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn: democracy] |
| 2. | a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
republic [rəˈpablik] noun
Example: The United States is a republic — the United Kingdom is not.
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republic
A form of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives. Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person. In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.
[Chapter:] World Politics
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Republic County, KS (county, FIPS 157) Location: 39.82816 N, 97.65027 W
Population (1990): 6482 (3283 housing units)
Area: 1855.9 sq km (land), 9.9 sq km (water)
Republic, WA (town, FIPS 57850) Location: 48.64906 N, 118.73185 W
Population (1990): 940 (460 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99166
Republic, PA (CDP, FIPS 64224) Location: 39.96483 N, 79.87662 W
Population (1990): 1603 (734 housing units)
Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 15475
Republic, OH (village, FIPS 66320) Location: 41.12476 N, 83.01608 W
Population (1990): 611 (235 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 44867
Republic, MO (city, FIPS 61238) Location: 37.11730 N, 93.47512 W
Population (1990): 6292 (2431 housing units)
Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 65738
Republic, MI Zip code(s): 49879
Republic, KS (city, FIPS 59000) Location: 39.92365 N, 97.82439 W
Population (1990): 177 (119 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 66964
Port Republic, VA Zip code(s): 24471
Port Republic, NJ (city, FIPS 60600) Location: 39.53801 N, 74.48716 W
Population (1990): 992 (372 housing units)
Area: 20.0 sq km (land), 2.7 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 08241
Port Republic, MD Zip code(s): 20676
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Republic
Re*pub"lic\ (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F. r['e]publique, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real, a., and Public.]1. Common weal. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 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, 2. Note: 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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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