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  Dem

  noun

  a member of the Democratic Party.
• dem.
  dem.

  abbreviation

  demonstrative.
• Dem.
  Dem.

  abbreviation

  Democrat.

Dem

¹ American  

[dem] / dɛm /

noun

Informal.

1. a member of the Democratic Party.

2. the Dems, the Democratic Party.

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dem. ² American  

abbreviation

1. demonstrative.

2. demurrage.

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Dem. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Democrat.

2. Democratic.

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Dem. British  

abbreviation

1. Democrat(ic)

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Etymology

Origin of Dem

1830–40, shortening of Democrat ( def. 3a )

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Lib Dem candidate Patrick Stillman said his party's ground game in the by-election was helping it reintroduce itself.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The party led a joint Conservative-Lib Dem administration when the council was under no overall control from 2006 to 2010.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Lib Dem leader also addressed the potential threat posed by AI in his speech, saying that "handled badly, it concentrates more power in fewer hands than at any point in human history."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

A frontbencher said: "With the possible exception of our position on Trump, you could characterise most of our press lines as 'a Lib Dem spokesperson said, steady on now, gently does it'."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Dem dogs run dat track right on down to Konkabia and crossed it to de Blacksher side.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Smiling, Jasper explains the subject-object grammar that their new identity prescribes: "For the demon pronouns, it would be: 'Leona is my partner. Dem is cute and I belong to dem. I love demon very much.'"

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2023

I E a dem. pref; Min a, o; Dak o.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

A by mistake omits Dem. and reads In heaven. l.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Francis Beaumont

Mrs. Guilford, work in Tenn, 597 to 619; at Dem. natl. conv. and in Wash, 599, 600, 606, 619.Dundore,

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper

Amend, 212;at Dem. natl. conv, 220;in Md, 251;Mich, 309;Okla, 522, 525;Ore, 540, 544;R. I, 572;Tenn, 596, 598, 608-9, 612;opp. ratification in Tenn, 622; 665.Clement,

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper

C gives this line to Leo. and the next only to Dem. l.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by Francis Beaumont

New Haven, Conn., 1877; Cornell U., 1881; active in Dem. councils, state and national, but never a candidate for office.

From The Mirrors of Washington by John Kirby