Democracy
nounid
45421·updated May 18, 2026verified
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
polysemous
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Variants
- synonym
- commonwealthmajority rulerepublic
- plural
- Democracies
- possessive
- Democracy's
- pluralpossessive
- Democracies'
Framework definitions
- §1
- the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
- §2
- the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
- §3
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- §1 · legacy_primary
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent themDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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