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REPUBLIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Synonyms:
commonwealth; democracy; republic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("republic" is a kind of...):
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "republic"):
Weimar Republic (the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919)
parliamentary democracy (a democracy having a parliament)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
Example:
the head of state in a republic is usually a president
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("republic" is a kind of...):
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
Instance hyponyms:
Roman Republic (the ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC; was governed by an elected Senate but dissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated in a brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar)
