republics
- 1Plural of republic.
Several former Soviet republics gained independence in the early 1990s.
The neighboring republics signed a trade agreement last month.
Note
A regular plural formed with a plain -s, it carries every meaning of the singular. Most often it counts sovereign states without a monarch, yet it also names subdivisions within a larger country: the republics of Russia, or those that made up the former Yugoslavia. In older usage it could even include monarchies whose executive and legislative branches stood apart, so read historical texts with that wider meaning in mind.
republics is a form of republic
republic, noun: A state in which power rests with the people or their elected representatives rather than with a monarch or emperor. Full entry
- Forms
- republicrepublics plural
- Spelling
- republic → republics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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