Democracy word meaning and definition

Beside meaning and definition for word "democracy", on this page you can find other interesting information too, like synonyms or related words. On bottom of the page we have fun area, like tarot cards, numerology for these Nine characters, how to write "democracy" with bar codes or hand signs and more.. Table of Contents:

• Meaning and definition
• Synonyms for democracy
• Antonyms
• See also
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• Letter statistic
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Meaning and definition for "democracy" word

[noun] the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
[noun] the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
[noun] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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\De*moc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Democracies}. [F. d['e]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.]

Synonyms for democracy

commonwealth, majority rule, republic

Antonyms: autarchy, autocracy

Related terms: absolute monarchy, collectivism, common ownership, commonwealth, dictatorship, dominion rule, federation, feudal system, heteronomy, home rule, limited monarchy, meritocracy, militarism, patriarchate, police state, pure democracy, regency, representative government, social democracy, stratocracy, technocracy, tyranny

The fun area, different aproach to word »democracy«

Let's analyse "democracy" as pure text. This string has Nine letters in Four syllables and Three vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: YCARCOMED. Average typing speed for these characters is 2385 milliseconds. [info]

Morse code: -.. . -- --- -.-. .-. .- -.-. -.--

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: democracy: 5 + 6 + 1 = 12, reduced: 3 (or 1 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Three.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: democracy: 4 + 5 + 4 + 6 + 3 + 9 + 1 + 3 + 7 = 42, reduced: 6, and the final result is Six.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
A (1)	1	Magician	Creative, Inventive, Intuitive
C (2)	3	Empress	Patient, Willful, Strong, Giving
D (1)	4	Emperor	Determined, Persistant, Idealist
E (1)	5	Hierophant	Wise, Crafty, Daring, Inventive
M (1)	13	Death	Creator, Developer, Builder
O (1)	15	Devil	Optimist, Gamesman, Marketer, Hunter
R (1)	18	Moon	Patient, Determined, Strong
Y (1)	25	Knight of Wands	Brave, Daring, Bold, Charismatic, Brash

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