# republic
## English
### Alternative forms

* republick, republique (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/, /ɹəˈpʌb.lɪk/
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* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /ɹɪˈpʊb.lɪk/, /ɹəˈpʊb.lɪk/
* 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.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 256:Perhaps the great charm of a republic to the young mind is, the career which it seems to lay open to all, and whose success depends upon personal gifts; while their exercise seems more independent when devoted to the people rather than to the monarch.
** 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“[…] 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.
* One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
    The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
* One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.

#### Derived terms

* Alpine republic
* Arab Republic of Egypt
* Argentine Republic
* banana republic
* Bilhorod People's Republic
* Boer republic
* Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
* Central African Republic
* Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
* Co-operative Republic of Guyana
* crowned republic
* Czech Republic
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
* Dominican Republic
* Dutch Republic
* Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
* Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
* federal republic
* Federal Republic of Germany
* Federal Republic of Nigeria
* Federative Republic of Brazil
* French Republic
* Hellenic Republic
* Islamic Republic of Iran
* Islamic Republic of Mauritania
* Islamic Republic of Pakistan
* Italian Republic
* Lebanese Republic
* Lugansk People's Republic
* maritime republic
* Novgorod Republic
* Oriental Republic of Uruguay
* parliamentary republic
* People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
* people's republic
* People's Republic of Bangladesh
* People's Republic of Canada
* People's Republic of China
* Portuguese Republic
* presidential republic
* republican
* republicanism
* Republic County
* Republic of Albania
* Republic of Angola
* Republic of Argentina
* Republic of Armenia
* Republic of Austria
* Republic of Azerbaijan
* Republic of Bashkortostan
* Republic of Benin
* Republic of Botswana
* Republic of Bulgaria
* Republic of Chad
* Republic of Chile
* Republic of China
* Republic of Colombia
* Republic of Costa Rica
* Republic of Croatia
* Republic of Cuba
* Republic of Cyprus
* Republic of Djibouti
* Republic of Estonia
* Republic of Fiji
* Republic of Finland
* Republic of Ghana
* Republic of Guatemala
* Republic of Guinea
* Republic of Guinea-Bissau
* Republic of Iceland
* Republic of India
* Republic of Indonesia
* Republic of Iraq
* Republic of Ireland
* Republic of Kenya
* Republic of Latvia
* Republic of Liberia
* Republic of Lithuania
* Republic of Malawi
* Republic of Maldives
* Republic of Mali
* Republic of Malta
* Republic of Mauritius
* Republic of Mordovia
* Republic of Mozambique
* Republic of Namibia
* Republic of Niger
* Republic of North Macedonia
* Republic of Panama
* Republic of Paraguay
* Republic of Peru
* Republic of Poland
* Republic of Senegal
* Republic of Serbia
* Republic of Sierra Leone
* Republic of Singapore
* Republic of Slovenia
* Republic of South Africa
* Republic of Texas
* Republic of the Congo
* Republic of the Philippines
* Republic of the Sudan
* Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
* Republic of Tunisia
* Republic of Turkey
* Republic of Yemen
* Republic of Zambia
* Republic of Zaqistan
* Republic of Zimbabwe
* sister republic
* Slovak Republic
* Socialist Republic of Vietnam
* Somali Federal Republic
* Soviet republic
* Soviet Socialist Republic
* Syrian Arab Republic
* Togolese Republic
* Udmurt Republic
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
* United Republic of Tanzania

#### Translations

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### See also

* commonwealth
* republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Further reading

* “republic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “republic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “republic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [reˈpublik]

### Verb

republic
* first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of republica