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# democracy

«democracy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a way of running a country in which the people choose…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (democracy, democracies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Democracy is a way of running a country in which the people choose their leaders by voting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#m1)

2) A democracy is a country run in this way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#m2)

3) Democracy can mean fair decisions where everyone has an equal say, as in a class vote. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and history lessons it is compared with kings and dictators; free elections, free speech and fair laws are parts of democracy. In class, voting for a class leader is a small democracy. Phrases: «live in a democracy», «a free democracy», «parliamentary democracy».

### examples

- In a democracy, people vote for their leaders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#x1)
- The United States, Canada and Australia are democracies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#x2)
- Ancient Athens had an early form of democracy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#x3)
- Our class used democracy to choose the trip — we voted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#x4)
- Free speech is important in a democracy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#x5)
- 18 of 30 pupils voted for the zoo; is that more than half? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/#x6)

### note

Plural: democracies. Adjective: democratic. The word comes from Greek: demos = people, kratos = power. Maths in votes: a majority means more than half.

### In the corpora

- [In a democracy the grown-ups choose who runs the country and the town.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/0/)
- [They called it democracy, rule by the people, though women, slaves and foreigners could not vote.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/1/)
- [And rights can be lost: Germany's democracy was ended in 1933 when Hitler's party took power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/6/)
- [Rights can be lost: Germany was a democracy after 1919, but Hitler's party took power in 1933 and ended it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/26/)
- [At many Australian polling places, schools and clubs sell sausages in bread to raise money; people call it the democracy sausage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/9-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «democracy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democracy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.