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Definition of republic noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

republic

noun
 
 
/rɪˈpʌblɪk/
 
/rɪˈpʌblɪk/
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  1. a country that is governed by a president and politicians elected by the people and where there is no king or queen
    • newly independent republics
    • Mary McAleese has been the President of the Republic of Ireland since 1997.
    see also banana republic compare monarchy
    Extra Examples
    • They have declared themselves an independent democratic republic.
    • a constitutional republic based on the principles of democracy
    • the People's Republic of China
    • the breakaway republics of the former Soviet empire
    • the former Yugoslav republics
    • the year that Guyana became a socialist republic
    • There have been protests in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
    • There were several small autonomous republics within the Russian Federation.
    • There will be elections in the Czech Republic next month.
    Topics Politicsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • new
    • young
    • former
    • …
    verb + republic
    • become
    • build
    • create
    • …
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French république, from Latin respublica, from res ‘concern’ + publicus ‘of the people, public’.
See republic in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee republic in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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