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people's democratic republic

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English

Syllables: peo-ple's demo-crat-ic re-pub-lic
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noun

Alternative letter-case form of people's democratic republic.

name

Ellipsis of People's Democratic Republic of Algeria: a country in North Africa.

Etymology

Calque of Russian наро́дно-демократи́ческая респу́блика (naródno-demokratíčeskaja respúblika) (from народный (narodnyj) + демократи́ческая (demokratíčeskaja) + республика (respublika).

Inflected Forms

people's democratic republics (plural) the People's Democratic Republic (canonical)

Phrases

Lao People's Democratic Republic People's Democratic Republic People's Democratic Republic of Algeria People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Soviet republic Soviet Socialist Republic

Questions

What does people's democratic republic mean?: Alternative letter-case form of people's democratic republic.
Where does people's democratic republic come from?: Calque of Russian наро́дно-демократи́ческая респу́блика (naródno-demokratíčeskaja respúblika) (from народный (narodnyj) + демократи́ческая (demokratíčeskaja) + республика (respublika).

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