英语词汇“republic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	republic
释义	re·pub·lic I. \rə̇ˈpəblik, rēˈp-, -lēk\ noun (-s) Etymology: French république, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, res publica, from res thing, fact, matter + publica, feminine of publicus public — more at real, public 1. obsolete : commonweal, state 2. a. (1) : a government characterized by having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation or state) having such a form of government < the republic of England, Scotland, and Ireland under Oliver Cromwell — E.E.Reynolds > < the republics of South America have been the happy hunting ground of dictators — L.A.Mills > < the ancient Roman republic > b. (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law : representative democracy (2) : a political unit (as a nation or state) having such a form of government < pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands — Francis Bellamy > < the German people … by creating a federal republic resting upon a democratic constitution — U.S. Code > c. : a usually specified republican government of a political unit < France's republics are numbered … consecutively — Times Literary Supplement > < the Fourth Republic > 3. a. : a community of beings that resembles in organization a political republic and is usually characterized by a general equality among members < a curious republic of industrious hornets — M.G.J.deCrèvecoeur > b. : a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity < the republic of art > < the republic of letters > 4. : an organization modeled after a junior republic < establish a boys' republic in this state — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News > 5. : a constituent political and territorial unit of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia < our visits to four of the republics of Yugoslavia — G.E.Shipler > < the Ukraine and the other republics within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — Bogdan Raditsa > II. adjective also republical Etymology: republic from republic (I); republical from republic (I) + -al obsolete : republican 1 < the republic cities … of Greece — Roger Boyle > < devoted to the … republical party — Edward Hyde >
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