Noun
- 1. democracy, republic, commonwealth, political system, form of government
- usage: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- 2. republic, political system, form of government
- usage: a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"
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