Democratic \Dem`o*crat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. d['e]mocratique.]

1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.

2. Relating to a political party so called.

3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.

The Democratic party, the name of one of the chief political parties in the United States.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)