a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; " the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

Common weal.

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.

A state or country in which the supreme power is held by the people, who elect their own representatives and executive officers; a commonwealth.

A commonwealth: a form of government without a monarch, in which the supreme power is vested in representatives elected by the people.

A common wealth; State governed by the people or their chosen representatives.

A state in which the people rule themselves through officers of their own election; a community; commonwealth.

A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. Republic of letters, the collective body of literary or learned men.

A state or country in which the supreme power is vested in rulers elected periodically by the people; a commonwealth.

The poison of other states is the food of the new Republic – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) by Edmund Burke

There came also Mr. Van Zandt of this Republic of Texas. – 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough

For a moment it threatened the very existence of the Roman Republic – A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume I. of VI. by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

What are you standing here for, like all those other fools, who believe the Great Council would give birth to the salvation of the republic – Andrea Delfin by Paul Heyse

If, then, we ask as did Adeimantus in the Republic Where, then, is righteousness, and in which particular part of the state is it to be found," our answer will be that given by Socrates, " that each individual man shall be put to that use for which nature designs him, and every man will do his own business so that the whole city will be not many but one." – The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William de Witt Hyde

On November 3, 1902, the Republic of Panama was established. – The American Empire by Scott Nearing

But literature is a republic and it must here be said, though all unwillingly, that Lord Rosebery is but an amateur- a superficial though a clever amateur after all, and their extravagances do not change the fact. – Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial by Alexander H. Japp

The symbol of royalty was to be taken to the mountain top and flung far away outside the boundaries of Fairydom, and a republic proclaimed and acclaimed. – The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann

Indeed, no man who is truly fit to represent the republic would ever have any concern about the matter. – Recollections of Europe by J. Fenimore Cooper

You talk of a Republic – Temporal Power by Marie Corelli

It was impudent, too, but it was the impudence of the great Republic the bold assertion of freedom and prosperity. – With Edge Tools by Hobart Chatfield-Taylor

His object was to establish a Roman republic in Spain; but it is difficult to manufacture a foreign article of native materials. – The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott Becket

Then he proposed their own republic and for themselves they took Tampico from the French. – The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

On either horn of the dilemma does he hang, who denies the republic – The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

His bank, as I have elsewhere said, was an excellent thing for a republic or for a country like England, where finance is as in a republic – The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 13 And His Court and of The Regency by Duc de Saint-Simon

He and others had talked too, in a confident way, of the " Grand Republic of the Pacific" that might be then formed out of the lands of the Western coast. – History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

A citizen of the Republic of France. – El Dorado by Baroness Orczy

During the earlier years of the Republic religion had an extremely good effect upon the morals of the people. – Roman Women Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 2 (of 10) by Alfred Brittain

He was still talking of his dear Republic – The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola

The American Republic has been thrust aside. – The American Empire by Scott Nearing