REPUBLIC
\ɹɪpˈʌblɪk], \ɹɪpˈʌblɪk], \ɹ_ɪ_p_ˈʌ_b_l_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of REPUBLIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Common weal.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Common weal.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A commonwealth: a form of government without a monarch, in which the supreme power is vested in representatives elected by the people.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A state in which the people rule themselves through officers of their own election; a community; commonwealth.
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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