Republic
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
republic (noun)1.
a) (1) a government 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) having such a form of government
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
(2) a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
c) a usually specified government of a political unit - republican the French Fourth Republic
2.
a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity - the republic of letters
3.
a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Yugoslavia
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
republic (noun)government in which the supreme power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation
SYNONYMS:
republic, self-government, self-ruleRELATED WORDS:
pure democracy; home rule, self-determination; autonomy, sovereignty ( sovranty)NEAR ANTONYMS:
despotism, dictatorship, monarchy, monocracy, totalitarianism, tyranny
