republic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
republic/rɪˈpʌblɪk/
▶noun a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
– origin C16: from Fr. république, from L. respublica, from res ‘concern’ + publicus ‘of the people, public’.
'republic' also found in these Oxford entries:
Anglo-Irish
- AR
- ASSR
- banana republic
- Bohemian
- bonobo
- border
- Bren gun
- burgher
- CFA
- CG
- Chechen
- Chuvash
- commonwealth
- Congolese
- consul
- consulate
- Costa Rican
- Czech
- Czechoslovak
- Dagestanian
- Dáil
- DDR
- deni
- dollar
- Dominican
- DRC
- Ebola fever
- FYROM
- Garda
- garryowen
- GDR
- haler
- imperator
- Ingush
- IRL
- Issa
- Kalmyk
- Kikongo
- koruna
- LAR
- Lingala
- Macedonian
- Mbuti
- Montenegrin
- Moravian
- okapi
- Ossi
- Ostmark
- Pilsner
