Dominican Republic
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- proper noun
- /ˌdɒmɪˈnɪkən rɪˈpʌblɪk/
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República Dominicana
- The Dominican Republic recently granted dual citizenship to children born of nationals outside the country.
- Dominican Republic and Haiti
- Dominican Republic and Jamaica
- counterparts in the Dominican Republic
Examples
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We're off to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic for two weeks.
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I'd like to welcome you to the Dominican Republic.
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You think it will be different in the Dominican Republic?
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He is from the Dominican Republic, and he is one incredible ball player.
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As many of you know, the merengue is the national dance of the Dominican Republic.
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Today, that island is shared by two countries: the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Fiction book (1998) -
The majority of the European arrivals, however, regarded the Dominican Republic as a temporary stopover at best.
Academic text (2000) -
I'd like to welcome you to the Dominican Republic.
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We're off to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic for two weeks.
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As many of you know, the merengue is the national dance of the Dominican Republic.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a compositional country name formed from the demonym 'Dominican' and the political noun 'republic', so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it denotes the republic associated with Dominicans. Country-name constructions like this are cross-linguistically common, making the referential meaning transparent (aside from a minor potential confusion with the similarly named island 'Dominica').
Etymology
Dominican Republic may come from the city 'Santo Domingo', which was named for Saint Dominic and the Dominican priests who lived there. So Dominican points to that city's people and Republic shows it is a country, which is why the name refers to the nation on the eastern part of the island.