Noun republic has 2 senses
  1. democracy, republic, commonwealth - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
    --1 is a kind of political system, form of government
    --1 has particulars: Weimar Republic; parliamentary democracy
  2. republic - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"
    --2 is a kind of
    political system, form of government
    --2 has particulars: Roman Republic
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