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English
Etymology
From French démocrate démocratie aristocrate ( “ aristocrat ” ) ).
Pronunciation
Noun
democrat (plural democrats
A supporter of democracy ; an advocate of democratic politics (originally as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France).
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 ) uncovered wagon with two or more seats .
Translations
supporter of democracy
Albanian: demokrat (sq) m
Arabic: دِيمُقْرَاطِيّ m ( dīmuqrāṭiyy ) , دِيمُقْرَاطِيَّة f ( dīmuqrāṭiyya )
Armenian: դեմոկրատ (hy) ( demokrat )
Azerbaijani: demokrat
Belarusian: дэмакра́т m ( demakrát ) , дэмакра́тка f ( demakrátka )
Bulgarian: демокра́т (bg) m ( demokrát )
Catalan: demòcrata (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 民主主義者 ／ 民主主义者 (zh) ( mínzhǔzhǔyìzhě ) , 民主主义者 (zh) ( mínzhǔzhǔyìzhě )
Czech: demokrat (cs) m
Danish: demokrat c
Dutch: democraat (nl) m
Esperanto: demokrato (eo)
Estonian: demokraat
Finnish: demokraatti (fi)
French: démocrate (fr) m or f
Georgian: დემოკრატი ( demoḳraṭi )
German: Demokrat (de) m Demokratin (de) f
Greek: δημοκράτης (el) m ( dimokrátis )
Hebrew: דמוקרט m ( demoqrat' ) , דמוקרטית f ( demoqrat'it )
Hungarian: demokrata (hu)
Icelandic: demókrati (is) m
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: демократ ( demokrat )
Korean: 민주주의자 ( minjujuuija )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Kyrgyz: демократ (ky) ( demokrat )
Latvian: demokrāts m
Lithuanian: demokratas m
Macedonian: демократ m ( demokrat )
Norman: démocrate m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: demokrat m
Persian: دموکرات (fa) ( demokrât )
Polish: demokrata (pl) m
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
Slovene: demokrat m
Spanish: demócrata (es) m or f
Swedish: demokrat (sv) c
Tajik: демократ ( demokrat )
Thai: นักประชาธิปไตย ( nák-bprà-chaa-tí-bpà-dtai )
Turkish: demokrat (tr)
Turkmen: demokrat m
Ukrainian: демокра́т m ( demokrát ) , демокра́тка f ( demokrátka )
Uzbek: demokrat (uz)
Vietnamese: nhà dân chủ
Romanian
Noun
democrat m
democrat ( supporter of democracy )
Further reading