DEMOCRACY
\dɪmˈɒkɹəsi], \dɪmˈɒkɹəsi], \d_ɪ_m_ˈɒ_k_ɹ_ə_s_i]\
Definitions of DEMOCRACY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
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Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
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The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
By Oddity Software
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Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
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Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.
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The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.
By Noah Webster.
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A system of government in which there is free and equal participation by the people in the political decision-making process.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Government by the people; practical or social equality opposed to aristocracy; as, the world must be safe for democracy: Democracy, the Democratic party or its principles.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Government directly by the people; the mass of the people.
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U. S. Polit. The policy of the Democratic party; Democrats collectively.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A form of government in which the supreme power is directly or indirectly lodged in the hands of the people; the principles of the democratic party in the United States.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is exercised by the people collectively.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Greek] Republican government; a form of government in which the power resides in the collective body of the people, who conduct it by representation and delegation of powers;—the principles held by one of the two chief parties in the United States.
