- 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 - 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