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democrat Definition

demo·crat (demə krat′)

noun

  1. a person who believes in and upholds government by the people; advocate of rule by the majority
  2. a person who believes in and practices the principle of equality of rights, opportunity, and treatment
  3. a member of the Democratic Party

Etymology: Fr démocrate < démocratie: see democracy

democrat Synonyms

democrat

n.

republican, Social Democrat, evolutionist, state socialist, advocate of democracy, parliamentarian, constitutionalist, individualist, populist, believer in civil liberties, latitudinarian; see also liberal.

Antonyms dictator*, fascist*, autocrat.

Democrat Synonyms

Democrat

n.

registered Democrat, Southern Democrat, Jeffersonian Democrat, liberal, progressive, Dixiecrat*, Great Society Democrat*, New Dealer*.

Antonyms Republican*, Tory*, Socialist.

democrat Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • accuse: Please let them not accuse the Liberal Democrats of not having a solution.
  • join: Gentleman on his early career move to join the Liberal Democrats rather than the Labor party.
  • lead: Charles Kennedy in contrast led the Liberal Democrats to their most successful result for 80 years.
  • become: The area's old theocrats Would welcome freedom's bell, They'd all become good democrats, Saddam would run like hell.
  • leave: Left social democrats with all sorts of confused ideas gain a hearing.
  • say: He says Liberal Democrats can look forward to local councilor Carol Woods, joining him in Parliament.

Adjective modifier

  • liberal: Still the good news is the Liberal Democrats are poised for victory in Bristol.
  • bourgeois: It testifies to the collapse of all the illusions cherished by bourgeois democrats.
  • social: Social democrats have governed Sweden for 57 of the last 66 years.
  • Swedish: You could talk about the Swedish social democrats or the French socialists, but this was taboo.
  • influential: Influential house democrats continuing with the than either married.
  • Iraqi: Success for Iraqi democrats does not mean justification for the war.

Modifies a noun

  • signed-on: But what really democrats signed-on as a ruptured spleen.

Noun used with modifier

  • obstructionism: Grown to well their specific hole cards will start with obstructionism democrats would.
  • social-: Such a tactic would discredit the Social- Democrats, because it would make our entire political campaign a lever for reaction.
  • petty-bourgeois: In the second instance, the reverse took place--the proletariat, the petty-bourgeois democrats, the bourgeois republicans, Napoleon III.
  • proposal: Insurance proposal democrats groups in years in medicaid coverage.
  • opposition: News of the Justice Department probe did not seem to sit well with some opposition Democrats.
  • insurance: Insurance proposal democrats groups in years in medicaid coverage.
democrat Quotes

Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratöone Who can rule and dare not lie.

—Tennyson

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinctönobody is that. Doubtless some people say theyare, but this world isgrievously given to lying.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

—Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ