Democrat

  1. Proper noun.  (politics) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party in the United States.
  2. Proper noun.  (politics) A member or supporter of the Australian Democrats, a liberal political party.
  3. Adjective.  (politics) Of or belonging to the Democratic Party in the United States.
  4. Noun.  A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France).
  5. Noun.  Someone who rules a representative democracy.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.