Examples of “republic” in a Sentence

noun A country governed by elected representatives and a head of state who is not a monarch.

• Citizens of the republic vote every few years to choose their president.
• France became a republic after the revolution abolished the monarchy.
• The new constitution established the nation as a democratic republic.

noun One of the constituent states within a larger federation, such as the former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia.

• The small mountain republic joined the federation and kept its own parliament.
• Each Soviet republic had its own local government.
• Croatia was once a republic within Yugoslavia.