Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun democracy

3 senses of democracy

Sense 1
democracy -- (the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives)
       => political orientation, ideology, political theory -- (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Sense 2
democracy, republic, commonwealth -- (a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)
       => political system, form of government -- (the members of a social organization who are in power)

Sense 3
majority rule, democracy -- (the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group)
       => doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism -- (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)