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English noun: democracy | |||
| 1. | democracy (cognition) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ideology, political orientation, political theory | ||
| 2. | democracy (group) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | ||
| Synonyms | commonwealth, republic | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | form of government, political system | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | parliamentary democracy, Weimar Republic | ||
| 3. | democracy (cognition) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | ||
| Synonyms | majority rule | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought | ||
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