All 7 Uses of
republic
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- Beyond the hills were the mines of King Solomon, the toy republics of Central America, and little tinkling fountains in a court; beyond, the moonlit roofs of Bagdad, the little grated blinds of Samarkand, the moonlit camels of Bythinia, the Spanish ranch-house of the Triple Z, and J. B. Montgomery and his lovely daughter stepping from their private car upon a western track; and the castle-haunted crags of Graustark; the fortune-yielding casino of Monte Carlo; and the blue eternal Mediterranean, mother of empires.†
Chpt 2republics = governmental systems in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
- He got up from his rocker, put aside the crackling sheets of the evening paper (Republican), and undipped his steel-rimmed glasses from the great blade of his nose.
Chpt 2
- This deformity, which she carefully hid, added to, rather than subtracted from, the pontifical weight of her opinions: she was an earnest Republican— in memory of her departed mate—and she took a violent dislike to any one who opposed her political judgment.
Chpt 2
- He wanted his son to be a great and far-seeing statesman and a member of the Republican or Democratic party.
Chpt 2 *
- And he did not care under what form of government he lived—Republican, Democrat, Tory, Socialist, or Bolshevist—if it could assure him these things.
Chpt 3
- Abroad, grim old Britain had sent her ultimatum to the South Africans in 1899; Lord Roberts ("Little Bobs," as he was known affectionately to his men) was appointed commander-in-chief after several British reverses; the Transvaal Republic was annexed to Great Britain in September 1900, and formally annexed in the month of Eugene's birth.†
Chpt 1
- The tell-tale cover of The New Republic peeked from his pocket.†
Chpt 2
Definitions:
-
(1)
(republic as in: the country is a republic) of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
-
(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.