democrat
[dem-uh-krat]
- an advocate of democracy.
- a person who believes in the political or social equality of all people.
- (initial capital letter) Politics.
- a member of the Democratic Party.
- a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.
- Also called democrat wagon. a high, lightweight, horse-drawn wagon, usually having two seats.
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Origin of democrat
Democrat
[dem-uh krat]
- Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,148 feet (4315 meters).
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Examples from the Web for democrat
Contemporary Examples
The New York governor was the foremost Democrat to stand athwart the Reagan Revolution.
Such was the importance of showing the country that he was a “different kind of Democrat.”
I never hear a Democrat talk about these goods, which are, in the literal sense, indivisible—for us all.
(Not one Democrat supported it on the procedural vote earlier Thursday afternoon).
For example, 51 percent of North Carolinians voted that year for a Democrat to represent them in Congress.
Historical Examples
In that matter I would not trust myself; why, then, should I trust the composite Democrat?
'Tis Sixty Years SinceCharles Francis Adams
He had been trained a Democrat, and was a powerful worker in that party.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
After this manner the democrat was generated out of the oligarch?
The RepublicPlato
I assume, I said, that the tyrant is in the third place from the oligarch; the democrat was in the middle?
The RepublicPlato
If he were a Democrat he'd be president of the United States yet.
Mixed FacesRoy Norton
democrat
- an advocate of democracy; adherent of democratic principles
- a member or supporter of a democratic party or movement
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Democrat
- (in the US) a member or supporter of the Democratic Party
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Word Origin and History for democrat
n.
1790, "adherent of democracy," with reference to France, from French démocrate (18c., opposed to aristocrate), back-formation from démocratie (see democracy); revived in U.S. as a political party affiliation 1798, with a capital D. As a shortening of this, Demo (1793) is older than Dem (c.1840).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Democrat
A member of the Democratic party.
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