people's republic

people's republic noun: self-designation of A state with a Marxist-Leninist government.

Noun (1)

people's republic (plural people's republics)

Self-designation of A state with a Marxist-Leninist government.
- The Ukrainian People’s Republic brings the following to the knowledge of all belligerents: The Central Rada, on Nov. 20, proclaimed a People’s Republic1918, New York Times, Current History, volume VII, page 289
- Some China experts argue that the internal difficulties of the People’s Republic in the foreseeable future would prevent it from taking military attack against Taiwan.1977, Hungdah Chiu, Normalization of Relations with the People's Republic of China (U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs), page 218
(capitalized, humorous, usually) A particular area with strong, left-leaning tendencies, especially one with a certain level of autonomy.
- Remember, this study was conducted in Massachusetts, in the politically liberal climate of the “People's Republic of Cambridge,” where parents strive almost as hard to create racially nonbiased behavior in their children as they do to get them into the proper school.2013, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People, page 133
- Boulder is one of the few places in the country where you don’t pull weeds out of your garden — you mix them into your brownies. You gotta love a city that everyone refers to as, “The People’s Republic of Boulder.”2015, “In Boulder, the People’s Republic revisted”, in The Denver Post
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see people, 's, republic.

Synonyms:

popular republic, national republic

Noun (2) capitalized: People's Republic

People's Republic (plural People's Republics)

Alternative letter-case form of people's republic.

Proper noun capitalized: People's Republic

the People's Republic

(abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of the People's Republic of China: a country in East Asia.
- While he was reticent to speak up at my request, a number of his former colleagues made themselves helpful, particularly in making me aware of the nominee’s previously published work laying out a plan for the U.S. to abandon its allegiance to Taiwan in favor of the People’s Republic.2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229
- One of these report^([sic – meaning reports]) states that the Wolong District of Nanyang, Henan Province, has built a memorial to honest and upright officials, at which statues representing a number of feudal officials were erected together with ones to comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu...2012 [1998 April 12], Jiang Zemin, “Leading Cadres Need to Increase their Political Discernment and Acuity”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN...

people's republic meaning in Bengali, Punjabi, Tagalog and Arabic

people's republic in Bengali

self-designation of states with Marxist-Leninist governments: গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী gonoprojatontri

people's republic in Punjabi

self-designation of states with Marxist-Leninist governments: ਲੋਕਤੰਤਰੀ ਗਣਤੰਤਰ loktantarī gaṇtantar, ਲੋਕਤੰਤਰੀ ਗਣਰਾਜ loktantarī gaṇrāj

people's republic in Tagalog

self-designation of states with Marxist-Leninist governments: republikang bayan

people's republic in Arabic

self-designation of states with Marxist-Leninist governments: الْجُمْهُورِيَّة الشَّعْبِيَّة al-jumhūriyya š-šaʕbiyya

More languagesFewer languages

people's republic in Malay: republik rakyat
people's republic in Indonesian: republik rakyat
people's republic in Thai: สาธารณรัฐประชาชน sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát bprà-chaa-chon
people's republic in Vietnamese: cộng hòa nhân dân
people's republic in Myanmar: ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ pranysu.samma.ta.nuingngam

Synonyms of people's republic

popular republic
national republic

Forms of people's republic

plural	people's republics
alternative form	People's Republic
plural	People's Republics

Origin of people's republic

Calque of Russian народная республика (narodnaja respublika) (from народный (narodnyj) + республика (respublika) “people's republic, popular republic, national republic”), coined in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Attested in English from 1918.

Words formed from people's republic

Questions about people's republic

What does people's republic mean?: People's republic means self-designation of A state with a Marxist-Leninist government.
What is people's republic in Bengali?: People's republic in Bengali is গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী (gonoprojatontri). See People's republic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is people's republic?: People's republic can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of people's republic?: The plural of people's republic is people's republics.

Words near people's republic in the dictionary

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