republic

1. 1.

   a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

   Synonymsdemocracycommonwealth

   Broaderpolitical system

   NarrowerWeimar Republicparliamentary democracy
2. 2.

   a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch

   “the head of state in a republic is usually a president”

   Broaderpolitical system

   NarrowerRoman Republic

Other forms of republic

plural

republics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about republic

What does republic mean?

republic means "a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in republic?

republic has 3 syllables: re-pub-lic. The stress falls on "pub". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpʌblək/.

What is another word for republic?

Close synonyms include democracy, commonwealth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is republic a common word?

republic is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.