democrat
demo·crat (dem′ə krat′)
noun
- a person who believes in and upholds government by the people; advocate of rule by the majority
- a person who believes in and practices the principle of equality of rights, opportunity, and treatment
- a member of the Democratic Party
Etymology: Fr démocrate < démocratie: see democracy
democrat
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Democrat
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Antonyms
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.
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.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinctönobody is that. Doubtless some people say theyare, but this world isgrievously given to lying.
I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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