Etymology
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From French démocrate , from démocratie (modelled on aristocrate ( “ aristocrat ” ) ).
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈdɛməkɹæt/
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democrat (plural democrats )
A supporter of democracy ; an advocate of democratic politics (originally ( historical ) as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France ).
2019 November 25, Kris Cheng, “Hong Kong District Council election: Democrats take control of 17 out of 18 councils in landslide victory”, in Hong Kong Free Press [1] , archived from the original on 31 July 2020 :The democrats now have majority control in almost all areas except the Islands District Council, where they won seven seats, and the pro-Beijing camp obtained 11 seats.
Someone who rules a representative democracy.
2011 , Wesley Yang, "Death, Dictators, and Democracy", NYU Alumni Magazine , ISSN 1938-4823, issue 16, Spring 2011, page 10:
Democrats have to please a large segment of the voting public and will be punished if they fail to provide public goods [ …] . In the case of autocrats, however, they have to please a small minority of the governing power elite [ …] who will punish them if they fail to dedicate the public purse to their private enrichment.
( US , historical ) A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats .Derived terms
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Translations
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supporter of democracy
Albanian: demokrat (sq) m , demokrate f
Arabic: دِيمُقْرَاطِيّ m ( dīmuqrāṭiyy ) , دِيمُقْرَاطِيَّة f ( dīmuqrāṭiyya )
Armenian: դեմոկրատ (hy) ( demokrat )
Aromanian: dimucrat m , dimucratã f
Asturian: demócrata (ast) m or f
Azerbaijani: demokrat
Belarusian: дэмакра́т m ( demakrát ) , дэмакра́тка f ( demakrátka )
Bengali: গণতন্ত্রবাদী ( gonotontrobadi )
Bulgarian: демокра́т (bg) m ( demokrát ) , демокра́тка f ( djemokrátka )
Catalan: demòcrata (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 民主主義者 / 民主主义者 (zh) ( mínzhǔzhǔyìzhě )
Czech: demokrat (cs) m , demokratka f
Danish: demokrat c
Dutch: democraat (nl) m , democrate (nl) f
Esperanto: demokrato (eo)
Estonian: demokraat
Finnish: demokraatti (fi)
French: démocrate (fr) m or f
Galician: demócrata (gl) m or f
Georgian: დემოკრატი ( demoḳraṭi )
German: Demokrat (de) m , Demokratin (de) f
Greek: δημοκράτης (el) m ( dimokrátis )
Hebrew: דֶּמוֹקְרָט m ( demokrát ) , דמוקרטית f ( demokratit )
Hindi: प्रजातंत्रवादी (hi) m or f ( prajātantravādī ) , लोकतन्त्रवादी m or f ( loktantravādī )
Hungarian: demokrata (hu)
Icelandic: demókrati (is) m
Indonesian: demokrat (id)
Irish: daonlathaí m
Italian: democratico (it) m , democratica (it) f
Japanese: 民主主義者 ( みんしゅしゅぎしゃ, minshushugisha )
Kazakh: бұқарашыл ( būqaraşyl ) , демократ ( demokrat )
Korean: 민주주의자(民主主義者) ( minjujuuija )
Kyrgyz: демократ (ky) ( demokrat )
Latvian: demokrāts m , demokrāte f
Lithuanian: demokratas m , demokratė f
Macedonian: демократ m ( demokrat )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ардчилагч (mn) ( ardčilagč )
Norman: démocrate m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: demokrat m
Pashto: دېموکرات m or f ( demokrāt )
Persian: دموکرات (fa) ( demokrât )
Polish: demokrata (pl) m , demokratka (pl) f
Portuguese: democrata (pt) m or f
Romanian: democrat (ro) m , democrată (ro) f
Russian: демокра́т (ru) m ( demokrát ) , демокра́тка (ru) f ( demokrátka )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: демо̀крат m
Roman: demòkrat (sh) m
Slovak: demokrat m , demokratka f
Slovene: demokrat m , demokratka f
Spanish: demócrata (es) m or f
Swedish: demokrat (sv) c
Tajik: демократ ( demokrat )
Tatar: демократ ( demoqrat )
Thai: นักประชาธิปไตย ( nák-bprà-chaa-tí-bpà-dtai )
Turkish: demokrat (tr)
Turkmen: demokrat m
Ukrainian: демокра́т m ( demokrát ) , демокра́тка f ( demokrátka )
Uyghur: دېموكرات ( dëmokrat )
Uzbek: demokrat (uz)
Vietnamese: nhà dân chủ
Yiddish: דעמאָקראַט m ( demokrat )
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