democracy
noun
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Sense 1 noun
the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
Types & categories
- ideology hypernym
Related & opposite
- democratize derivation
- democratize derivation
- democratic derivation
Sense 2 noun
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Types & categories
- political system hypernym
- Weimar Republic hyponym
- parliamentary democracy hyponym
Related & opposite
- democratize derivation
- democratize derivation
- Democratic derivation
Sense 3 noun
the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
Types & categories
- doctrine hypernym
Related & opposite
- popular derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | ideology |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | democratize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | Democratic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | political system |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | Weimar Republic |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | parliamentary democracy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | popular |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | doctrine |