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Question

what is the meaning of republic, nation, liberty, and pledge?

Answer 1

REPUBLIC : A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.

NATION : A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country.

LIBERTY : The condition of being free from restriction or control.

PLEDGE : A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something

Answer 2

republic –noun
1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
4. (initial capital letter ) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Compare FIRST REPUBLIC, SECOND REPUBLIC, THIRD REPUBLIC, FOURTH REPUBLIC, FIFTH REPUBLIC.

5. (initial capital letter, italics ) a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato dealing with the composition and structure of the ideal state.


nation –noun
1. a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
2. the territory or country itself: the nations of Central America.
3. a member tribe of an American Indian confederation.
4. an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages.

liberty –noun
1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
3. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
4. freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint: The prisoner soon regained his liberty.
5. permission granted to a sailor, esp. in the navy, to go ashore.
6. freedom or right to frequent or use a place: The visitors were given the liberty of the city.
7. unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or speech, or a form or instance of it: to take liberties.
8. a female figure personifying freedom from despotism.

pledge –noun
1. a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
2. something delivered as security for the payment of a debt or fulfillment of a promise, and subject to forfeiture on failure to pay or fulfill the promise.
3. the state of being given or held as security: to put a thing in pledge.
4. Law.
a. the act of delivering goods, property, etc., to another for security.
b. the resulting legal relationship.

5. something given or regarded as a security.
6. a person accepted for membership in a club, fraternity, or sorority, but not yet formally approved.
7. an assurance of support or goodwill conveyed by drinking a person's health; a toast.
8. Obsolete.
a. a hostage.
b. a person who becomes bail or surety for another.

–verb (used with object)
9. to bind by or as if by a pledge: to pledge hearers to secrecy.
10. to promise solemnly: to pledge one's support.
11. to give or deposit as a pledge; pawn.
12. to stake, as one's honor.
13. to secure by a pledge; give a pledge for.
14. to accept as a pledge for club, fraternity, or sorority membership.
15. to drink a health or toast to.
–verb (used without object)
16. to make or give a pledge: to pledge for someone.
17. to drink a pledge; toast someone's health, success, etc.

Answer 3

the Latins way way back before jesus christ invented all those.you know the meaning,