republic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: republic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for republic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
republic n a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them Synonym(s): democracy, republic, commonwealth a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Republic \Repub"lic\ (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F. r[82]publique, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See {Real}, a., and {Public}.] 1. Common weal. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. 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. Note: In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few, constituting a government now distinctively called an aristocracy. In some there was a division of authority between an aristocracy and the whole body of the people except slaves. No existing republic* recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class to govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery. {Republic of letters}, The collective body of literary or learned men.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Republic, KS (city, FIPS 59000) Location: 39.92365 N, 97.82439 W Population (1990): 177 (119 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66964 Republic, MI Zip code(s): 49879 Republic, MO (city, FIPS 61238) Location: 37.11730 N, 93.47512 W Population (1990): 6292 (2431 housing units) Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65738 Republic, OH (village, FIPS 66320) Location: 41.12476 N, 83.01608 W Population (1990): 611 (235 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44867 Republic, PA (CDP, FIPS 64224) Location: 39.96483 N, 79.87662 W Population (1990): 1603 (734 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15475 Republic, WA (town, FIPS 57850) Location: 48.64906 N, 118.73185 W Population (1990): 940 (460 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99166