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republic

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Word definitions for republic in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Republic was a station stop along the Ronkonkoma Branch which served employees of the Fairchild Engine & Airplane Manufacturing Company and the nearby Republic Airport from 1940 to the late 1980s. As part of a double-tracking project on the line, the station ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "state in which supreme power rests in the people via elected representatives," from Middle French république (15c.), from Latin respublica (ablative republica ) "the common weal, a commonwealth, state, republic," literally res publica "public interest, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Republic \Re*pub"lic\ (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F. r['e]publique, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real , a., and Public .] Common weal. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. A state in which the sovereign power resides in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 (lb en archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branch ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 614 Housing Units (2000): 356 Land area (2000): 3.609384 sq. miles (9.348262 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.296779 sq. miles (0.768655 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.906163 sq. miles (10.116917 sq. km) FIPS code: 67980 Located within: Michigan ...

Usage examples of republic.

The accomplished citizens of the Greek and Roman republics, whose characters could adapt themselves to the bar, the senate, the camp, or the schools, had learned to write, to speak, and to act with the same spirit, and with equal abilities.

I dined that day with Major Pelodoro and several other officers, who agreed in advising me to enter the service of the Republic, and I resolved to do so.

The pride of Corinth, again rising from her ruins with the honors of a Roman colony, exacted a tribute from the adjacent republics, for the purpose of defraying the games of the Isthmus, which were celebrated in the amphitheatre with the hunting of bears and panthers.

Roman consul asserting the majesty of the republic, and declaring his inflexible resolution to enforce the rigor of the laws.

Muslim minority, as symbolized by the highly controversial decision in 2003 to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in schools, on the principle of the role of the state education system in preserving the secular and assimilatory values of the republic.

The wisest senators applauded his magnanimity: but they diverted him from the execution of a design which would have dissolved the strength and resources of the republic.

Julian, would have applauded an act of justice, which asserted the dignity of the supreme magistrate of the republic.

Director Paul Barras was considered the most powerful of the five, and hence the most politically powerful man in the French Republic.

Polish Post Office -- that cannot be -- then for the Post Office of the Federal Republic, and that, nearsighted but bespectacled, he is once more delivering happiness in the form of multicolored banknotes and hard coins.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah has ended and the republic that blah blah blah.

An ambassador was sent to London with representations of the imminent dangers which threatened the republic, and he was ordered to solicit in the most pressing terms the assistance of his Britannic majesty, that the allies might have a superiority in the Netherlands by the beginning of the campaign.

Republic, upon the ruins of the predatory monarchy of their exploiting and land-monopolizing rulers.

But immediately the young Republic emerged from the stresses of adolescence, a missionary army took to the field again, and before long the Asbury revival was paling that of Whitefield, Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, not only in its hortatory violence but also in the length of its lists of slain.

But, what to the future of the great Republic is more important, there is great danger of our people under-estimating the bitter animus and terrible malignity to the Union and its defenders cherished by those who made war upon it.

The Directory wished to have the latter boundary, and to add Mantua to the Italian Republic, without giving up all the line of the Adige and Venice.