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democrat definition

demo·crat (dem′ə 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

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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

n.

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

Antonyms Republican*, Tory*, Socialist.


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democrat Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • accuse: Please let them not accuse the Liberal Democrats of not having a solution.

Adjective modifier

  • liberal: Still the good news is the Liberal Democrats are poised for victory in Bristol.

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.
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democrat quotes

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

-Emerson, RalphWaldo

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

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ

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

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