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# democrat

«democrat» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who believes in democracy, where people choose…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a democrat, democrats; a Democrat, Democrats)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who believes in democracy, where people choose their leaders by voting and everyone has equal rights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#m1)

2) (USA, with a capital D) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party, one of the two biggest political parties in the United States; the other is the Republican Party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and politics lessons: in the USA, elections are mostly between Democrats and Republicans; on maps Democrats are shown in blue and Republicans in red. With a small d it means anyone who supports democracy, in any country. In the UK there are the «Liberal Democrats» (Lib Dems).

### examples

- My aunt in Ohio votes for the Democrats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#x1)
- The Democrat and the Republican argued on television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#x2)
- A true democrat accepts the result of a fair vote. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#x3)
- Some states usually vote Democrat and others Republican. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#x4)
- Barack Obama was a Democrat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#x5)
- In Britain, the Liberal Democrats are a political party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/democrat/#x6)

### note

Capital D for the US party, small d for the general idea. Adjective «democratic» / «Democratic». Do not confuse with «democracy» (the system). Say «DEM-uh-krat».

### Trees and pragmatics

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