| Noun | 1. | Dominican Republic - a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of HispaniolaOAS, Organization of American States - an association of countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" Caribbean - region including the Caribbean islands capital of the Dominican Republic, Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo - the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic; "Santo Domingo is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the Americas with the oldest cathedral and the oldest hospital and the oldest monastery in the Western Hemisphere" | |