Imperial vs Republic - What's the difference?
imperial | republic |
Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
* Shakespeare
Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
Very grand or fine.
Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
(paper, printing) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches x 22 inches.
A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
(lb) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
*1795 , (Immanuel Kant),
*:Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed.. None of the ancient so-called "republics " knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.
One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
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As a proper noun imperial
is a city in california.As a noun republic is
a state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.imperial
English
(wikipedia imperial)Adjective
(en adjective)- the imperial diadem of Rome
