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democrat [ dem -uh -krat ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈdɛm əˌkræt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun
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 1780–90; <French
démocrate, back formation from
démocratie democracy . See
demo- ,
-crat
OTHER WORDS FROM democrat an·ti·dem·o·crat, noun pro·dem·o·crat, adjective, noun
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Democrat
[ dem -uh krat ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈdɛmˌəkræt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,148 feet (4,315 meters).
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How to use democrat in a sentence While they can afford to spend influential sums on, say, trying to get a Democrat elected president, we might have only $10 or $100 to spend.
DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat , hasn’t yet unveiled his legislation.
Few could have guessed that the Keystone State would eventually become the “keystone” of the Electoral College,34 since going into 2016, Pennsylvania had voted for the Democrat in six straight presidential elections.
Several Republicans and one Democrat said clearly that they supported calling one.
The Senate's top Democrat , Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, is throwing his weight behind an economic message that ties climate to goals around racial justice, income inequality, labor rights and a lot more.
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.
It was in writing on these subjects that English writers borrowed the words aristocrat and democrat from the French writers.
He failed to see the editor of the "Fraser County Democrat " and peremptorily closed the incident.
When I came to this country, like the mass from beyond the sea, I was a Democrat ; there was a charm in the name.
I could not tell from his face whether he were Democrat or Whig, for it changed not a whit.
The boy is a better democrat when he leaves college than he will be later, if he goes into business.
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British Dictionary definitions for democrat (1 of 2)
noun
an advocate of democracy; adherent of democratic principles
a member or supporter of a democratic party or movement
British Dictionary definitions for democrat (2 of 2)
noun
(in the US) a member or supporter of the Democratic Party
Derived forms of Democrat Democratic , adjective Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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