单词 | city republic |
释义 | > as lemmascity republic city republic n. a city-state constituted as a republic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > sovereign or independent freedom1423 city1481 free city1575 imperial city1603 city republic1838 city-state1840 1838 Boston Q. Rev. Apr. 214 Republicanism..threatened for a time..to cover Europe with a multitude of city-republics. 1853 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 98 439 Her [sc. Greece's] people obstinately rejected the merging of the single city-republic in any larger unity. 1906 F. E. Hinckley Amer. Consular Jurisdict. in Orient i. 5 From the twelfth century the city republics, Pisa, Venice, Genoa and Florence, traded extensively at both Tunis and Alexandria. 2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) ii. v. 136 The Decembrists made a cult of the city republic. 2009 F. Fernández-Armesto 1492 vi. 160 Novgorod bordered the small territorial domain of Russia's only other city-republic, Pskov. < as lemmas |
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