DEMOCRAT

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• DEMOCRAT (noun)
  The noun DEMOCRAT has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Democratic Party

2. an advocate of democratic principles

  Familiarity information: DEMOCRAT used as a noun is rare.

• DEMOCRAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Democratic Party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Democrat" is a kind of...):

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

Holonyms ("Democrat" is a member of...):

Democratic Party (the older of two major political parties in the United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An advocate of democratic principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("democrat" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

 Context examples 

A crumpled, disintegrated newspaper revealed itself as the Chicago Democrat, though the date had been obliterated.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)