Definitions of republic

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. Common weal.

7. 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.