1. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
3. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
4. A nation that has such a political order.
5. A specific republican government of a nation: the fourth republic of france.
6. an autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
7. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.

1. A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
2. A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
3. one of the subdivisions constituting russia. see oblast.

1. common weal.
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.

1. the commonwealth; the state.
2. A commonwealth; a government in which the executive power is vested in a person or persons chosen directly or indirectly by the body of citizens entitled to vote.

1. a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
2. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them