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Variant of democracy

democracy Definition

de·moc·racy (di mäk′rə sē)

noun pl. democracies -·cies

  1. government in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives; rule by the ruled
  2. a country, state, etc. with such government
  3. majority rule
  4. the principle of equality of rights, opportunity, and treatment, or the practice of this principle
  5. the common people, esp. as the wielders of political power

Etymology: Fr démocratie < ML democratia < Gr dēmokratia < dēmos, the people (< IE *damos, a division of the people < base *da-, to cut, divide > tide) + kratein, to rule < kratos, strength: see hard

democracies Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • Western: They were worse both in terms of living standards and human rights than the Western social democracies.

democracies Quotes

Democracies must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijackers of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. —Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

Our whole history inclines us towards the democratic powers.Our renaissance is a logical link between us and the democracies of the west. —Masaryk,Toma¤  s Garrigue

Glorious deeds are not embraced by democracies, least of all by merchants, who, being by their nature intent on profit, loathe those splendid things that cannot be achieved without expense. —Pius II real name Enea Silvio de Piccolomini

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. —Cooper,James Fenimore