There's a saying for those who are making a loving in real estate, location/location, and so it goes for the word definition websites, if they are located in the UK many other definitions can be found, and in this case defining the noun word "republic," I discovered that defining this noun word "republic" can be more than a political word. And the other UK based website, dictionary.com
offers a definition based on a century's old definition, and the other
similarly located website Cambridge notes 3 other kinds of the noun word,
"republic"—which shows that location and definition matters when defining
a word, the merriam-webste ir located in the US and adheres solely to the
political only.
Although this website, libertyfund.org is not strictly offering a
definition, I've included it because of the need to further define a
"republic" from other kinds of republics, such as the French
republic, which is not a form of government in any way similar to the US
federal republic.
Google's AI lets know that the first "republic" of ancient
times was the Roman republic, however, according to the ancient sages, they
boiled it down to another definition, because a "republic was for the
common good."
Nonetheless, we find out from Google's AI that prior to the 17th
century, a "republic" defined almost any non-tyrannical state, yet
both the Revolutionary War and French revolution were very different, the
definition of a "republic" was subject to the proviso, no hereditary
monarchs, still, both were dissimilar revolutionary
inspired acts.
My research proves, that as I've always believed, certain words like
"republic" have a life of their own, so much so, that people are
willing to give their lives to achieve it.