REPUBLIC

noun see: real Date: 1604 1. a. a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president, a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government, b. 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, a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government, a usually specified ~an government of a political unit , a body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity , a constituent political and territorial unit of the former nations of Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Yugoslavia