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Definition: Democrat |
DemocratNoun1. A member of the Democratic Party. 2. An advocate of democratic principles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Democrat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
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See also: republican, monarchist
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Democrat."
Synonym: DemocratSynonym: populist (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, grisette, demimonde. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Democrat |
| English words defined with "Democrat": Democratist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Democrat": HURST. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Democrat": Democratist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Democrat" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (democrat, democratic). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Everyone's a Democrat until they get a little money (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow) And what happens? A Democrat for president (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; writing credit: Russ Meyer; Jack Moran) You're not a Democrat, are you (Random Hearts; writing credit: Warren Adler; Darryl Ponicsan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Royal Democrat (1919) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | What is that town yonder, if you please? : Baptis' and Democrat, young feller ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Quit blubbering and try acting like a democrat!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Puzzle picture. The Governor picks out the only Democrat. The sequel: Vote for Taft, Governor. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Senator Robert Love Taylor, Democrat from Tennessee, half-length portrait, standing, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Democrat wagon on William Walling farm near Anthon, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Democrat wagon on cut-over farm near Northome, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Andrew Stein, the Democrat for Borough President : when you look at what he's done, you'll see he's made a difference. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ed Koch, Democrat for mayor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Banks : independent Democrat, 23rd Senatorial District. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pick the Democrat to beat Nixon Feb. 13 at the State Delegate Convention. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Otto Von Bismarck-schoenhausen | No one, not even the most malevolent democrat has any idea how much nullity and charlatanism there is in diplomacy. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed. |
Will Rogers | You've got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Sierra Leone | In February police interrogated the editor of the Democrat newspaper and searched his office after he published an article about the President's security detail. (references) |
Guinea | Seven private newspapers (Le Lynx, La Lance, L'Oeil, Le Democrat, L'Independant, La Nouvelle Tribune, and L'Observateur) publish weekly in Conakry, and up to 10 other publications appear sporadically, although they are hampered by technical and financial difficulties stemming from paper and ink taxes. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | The Social Democrat Populist Party won 99 seats and became the main opposition party. (references) |
Political Economy | Thailand | With the exception of the Democrat Party, Thailand's oldest organized political party, Thai political parties have tended to be centered on individual personalities rather than ideologies. (references) |
Uruguay | The largest faction of the party, the Foro Batllista, is led by ex-President Julio Maria Sanguinetti, a self-proclaimed social democrat, who advocates gradual economic reform while protecting basic Uruguayan sectors, such as agriculture. (references) | |
Political Rights | Panama | In July the Christian Democrat Party held a convention and changed its name to the Popular Party. (references) |
Worker Rights | Denmark | The LO has traditionally had a close relationship with the Social Democrat Party. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John E. Sununu | Well, look, people in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue. There's a lot of Democrat rhetoric going back years, scare tactics, trying to scare seniors about Social Security. |
Mark Shields | Intense Republican tactic is blowing, basically, from the Democrat success in demonizing and villainizing Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the House, making him the face of the Republican Party. |
Rush Limbaugh | I don't trust any Democrat who actually proposes tax cuts, payroll or otherwise. |
Senator Patrick Leahy | We had a major hearing when Chief Justice Rehnquist became chief justice. As I recall, everybody wanted to have that hearing, Republican and Democrat. I think we would be doing the same thing here. |
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| "Democrat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.98% of the time. "Democrat" is used about 988 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.98% | 968 | 7,532 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.92% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 988 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Democrat": social democrat ♦ vote democrat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Democrat": democrat-authoritarian, democrat-controlled, democrat-dominated, democrat-fdp, democrat-free, democrat-inclined, democrat-inspired, democrat-led, democrat-liberal, democrat-run, democrat-sponsored. | |
Ending with "Democrat": Liberal-democrat. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Democrat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | demokrat. (various references) | |
Arabic | المناصر للديموقراطية, الديمقراطي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | демократ (demo, hunker). (various references) | |
Chinese | 民主党. (various references) | |
Czech | demokrat. (various references) | |
Dutch | democraat. (various references) | |
Esperanto | demokrato. (various references) | |
Farsi | عضوحزب دموکرات , طرفداراصول حکومت ملی . (various references) | |
Finnish | demokraatti. (various references) | |
French | démocrate. (various references) | |
German | Demokrat. (various references) | |
Greek | δημοκράτησ (republican). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "מוקרט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | demokrata. (various references) | |
Indonesian | demokrat. (various references) | |
Italian | democratico (democratic). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | デポジット制度 (demagogue, demand, demand bus, demerit, demi-, Deming, demi-tasse, demo, democracy, democratic, demodulator, demographic, demonstration, demonstration tape, Depo-provera, deposit system, devilish, rumor)). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | デモクラット . (various references) | |
Korean | 민주주의자. (various references) | |
Manx | deynlaghteyr. (various references) | |
Papiamen | demokrat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emocratday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | democrata. (various references) | |
Romanian | democrat (democratic). (various references) | |
Russian | демократ. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | demokrata. (various references) | |
Spanish | demócrata. (various references) | |
Swedish | demokrat. (various references) | |
Turkish | demokratik partili, demokrat, halkçı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | член демократичної партії, демократ. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwerinwr. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:Democrats Svizers. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Democrat": democratic, democratically, democratization, democratizations, democratize, democratized, democratizer, democratizers, democratizes, democratizing, democrats. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Democrat": antidemocratic, nondemocratic, ultrademocratic, undemocratic, undemocratically. (additional references) | |
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"Democrat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: democract, Democrata, democrate, democraten, Democray, democrit, Demokrat, Demokraten, Demokrati, Demorgan, Demornay, Denotra, deomcrat, Dermacort, desmoret. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Democrat" (pronounced de"mukra't) |
| 5 | -u k r a' t | aristocrat, autocrat, bureaucrat, Plutocrat, technocrat. |
| 4 | -k r a' t | muskrat. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: caromed, comrade, cordate, redcoat. | |
-2 letters: carted, coated, coater, comade, comate, crated, dreamt, marted, moated, orated, radome, redact, roamed, traced. | |
-3 letters: acred, acted, actor, adore, amort, arced, armed, armet, cadet, cadre, cameo, cared, caret, carom, carte, cater, cedar, coder, comae, comer, comet, comte, cored, coted, crate, cream, credo, dater, decor, derat, derma, doter, dream. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: comparted, democrats, motorcade. | |
+2 letters: democratic, dichromate, dockmaster, ectodermal, motorcaded, motorcades, outcharmed, outmarched. | |
+3 letters: audiometric, bichromated, camphorated, countermand, declamatory, demarcation, democratize, dichromates, dockmasters, documentary, maledictory, ostracoderm, overmatched, proctodaeum, radiometric, tragicomedy. | |
+4 letters: achromatized, commemorated, commendatory, commiserated, condemnatory, countermands, demarcations, democratized, democratizer, democratizes, dermatologic, dilatometric, dominatrices, dynamometric, hemichordate, isodiametric, melodramatic, ostracoderms, overdramatic, overmedicate, proctodaeums, radiochemist, radiomimetic, romanticised, romanticized, undemocratic. | |
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