Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

republic

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also:Republic

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromMiddle Frenchrepublique(“republic”), fromLatinrēspūblicā, fromrēs(“thing”) +pūblica(“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]
EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

republic (pluralrepublics)

  1. Astate wheresovereignty rests with thepeople or theirrepresentatives, rather than with amonarch oremperor; acountry with nomonarchy.
    The United States is arepublic; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy.
    • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume II, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page256:
      Perhaps the great charm of arepublic to the young mind is, the career which it seems to lay open to all, and whose success depends upon personal gifts; while their exercise seems more independent when devoted to the people rather than to the monarch.
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]”
  2. (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which theexecutive andlegislativebranches of government are separate.
    • 1795,Immanuel Kant,Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch:
      Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.[…]Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism […]. None of the ancient so-called "republics" knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.
  3. One of thesubdivisions constitutingRussia. Seeoblast.
    TheRepublic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
  4. One of thesubdivisions that made up the formerYugoslavia.

Derived terms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]
a type of state
one of the kinds of parts constituting Russia
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

See also

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Romanian

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

republic

  1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive ofrepublica
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=republic&oldid=84433865"
Categories:
Hidden categories:
[8]ページ先頭
©2009-2025 Movatter.jp