a country that is governed by a president and politicians elected by the people and where there is no king or queen共和国；共和政体- newly independent republics新独立的共和国
- Mary McAleese has been the President of the Republic of Ireland since 1997.自1997年以来，玛丽·麦卡利斯（Mary McAleese）担任爱尔兰共和国总统。
see also banana republic compare monarchyExtra Examples- They have declared themselves an independent democratic republic.他们宣布自己是一个独立的民主共和国。
- a constitutional republic based on the principles of democracy建立在民主原则基础上的立宪共和国
- the People's Republic of China中华人民共和国
- the breakaway republics of the former Soviet empire从苏联帝国脱离出去的共和国
- the former Yugoslav republics前南斯拉夫各共和国
- the year that Guyana became a socialist republic圭亚那成为社会主义共和国的那一年
- There have been protests in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.在前苏联格鲁吉亚曾发生过抗议活动。
- There were several small autonomous republics within the Russian Federation.俄罗斯联邦内有几个小型自治共和国。
- There will be elections in the Czech Republic next month.捷克共和国将在下月选举。
Topics Politicsc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + republicSee full entry Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French république, from Latin respublica, from res ‘concern’ + publicus ‘of the people, public’.