democrat

See also: Democrat

English

Etymology

From French démocrate, from démocratie (modelled on aristocrate (“aristocrat”)), equivalent to demo- +‎ -crat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛməkɹæt/

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Noun

democrat (plural democrats)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. (US, historical) A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats.

Derived terms

• antidemocrat
• Christian democrat
• cyberdemocrat
• democratish
• democratism
• democrat wagon
• e-democrat
• homocrat
• nondemocrat
• small d democrat
• small-d democrat
• small "d" democrat
• social democrat
• technodemocrat
• victicrat

Related terms

• Democrat
• Demoncrat

Translations

supporter of democracy

• Albanian: demokrat (sq) m, demokrate f
• Arabic: دِيمُقْرَاطِيّ m (dīmuqrāṭiyy), دِيمُقْرَاطِيَّة (ar) 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 (demokrátka)
• 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)

ruler in a democracy

• Chinese:

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• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: demokraatti (fi)
• French: démocrate (fr) m or f
• Georgian: დემოკრატი (demoḳraṭi)
• German: Demokrat (de) m, Demokratin (de) f
• Irish: daonlathaí m

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French démocrate.

Noun

democrat m

1. democrat (supporter of democracy)

Further reading

• “democrat”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025