democrats
- 1Plural of democrat.
Exiled democrats kept up their campaign for free elections from abroad.
The hired man hitched the horses to both democrats, and the family rode to the county fair.
Note
Most democrats are people, but in older American use some were wagons. As a political label the word began in Revolutionary France, where democrats stood against the aristocrats. Today a capital letter marks members of the US Democratic Party, while lowercase democrats are simply people who back democracy. The wagon kind was large, light and open, with two or more seats.
democrats is a form of democrat
democrat, noun: A member or supporter of a political party called the Democratic Party, especially the one in the United States. Full entry
- Forms
- democratdemocrats plural, plural
- Spelling
- democrat → democrats: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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