Democratic
[demə'krætɪk] or ['dɛmə'krætɪk]
Definition
(adj.) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; 'democratic art forms'; 'a democratic or popular movement'; 'popular thought'; 'popular science'; 'popular fiction' .
(adj.) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality; 'democratic government'; 'a democratic country'; 'a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords'- George du Maurier .
(adj.) belong to or relating to the Democratic Party; 'Democratic senator' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
(a.) Relating to a political party so called.
(a.) Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Popular, of the people.[2]. Representative, republican.[3]. [U. S.] Of the democrats.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Popular, leveling, radical, subversive, unlicensed, unarculca, destructive,republican
ANT:Regal, imperial, aristocratic, oligarchical, constitutional, conservative,tyrannical, despotic, autocratic
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Examples
- Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Scott was a Whig and the administration was democratic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Its rule combines the disadvantage of absolute monarchy with the impersonality and irresponsibility of democratic officialdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nay, the very animals in a democratic State have a freedom which is unknown in other places. Plato. The Republic.
- Marx, we are told, could use phrases like democratic miasma. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mr. Zachariah Chandler was the candidate of the Whigs for the office of Mayor, and was elected, although the city was then reckoned democratic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This tradition is still active even in democratic America. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These in his democratic days, when he was still subject to the laws and to his father, were only let loose in the dreams of sleep. Plato. The Republic.
- The state (a democratic state was of course understood) was to own all property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They even produced, or quoted, a written order from our Versailles Municipality--which is a monarchic not a democratic one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In some sections more anti-slavery men belonged to the Democratic party, and in others to the Whigs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In both ways, this philosophy promoted a wider and more democratic social concern. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If Chuck said that, he went straight to the heart of that democratic morality on which a new statecraft must ultimately rest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet these things do not at all affect his slumber or his democratic simplicity, for in that, as in everything else, he is attending strictly to business, doing the thing that is next to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And this means a democratic society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A point to note about this early socialism of Owen's is that it was not at first at all democratic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A democratic criterion requires us to develop capacity to the point of competency to choose and make its own career. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The democratic culture must, with critical persistence, make man the measure of all things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Generally they call them masters, but in democratic States they simply call them rulers. Plato. The Republic.
- Let him then be se t over against democracy; he may truly be called the democratic m an. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The movement for the democratic idea inevitably became a movement for publicly conducted and administered schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is, and has been from its earliest existence, a democratic town. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is no such thing as Democracy; there are a number of more or less democratic experiments which are not subject to wholesale eulogy or condemnation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He retired from academic life, and was elected Democratic Governor of New Jersey in 1910. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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