transcription, транскрипция: [ ri-ˈpə-blik ]
noun
Etymology: French république, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth + publica, feminine of publicus public — more at real , public
Date: 1604
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 republican government of a political unit
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