democracy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: democracy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for democracy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
democracy n the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them Synonym(s): democracy, republic, commonwealth the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group Synonym(s): majority rule, democracy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Democracy \Democ"racy\, n.; pl. {Democracies}. [F. d[82]mocratie, fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people + kratei^n to be strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.] 1. Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. 2. Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. 3. Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. --Milton. 4. The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. [U.S.]