DEMOCRACY Synonyms
There are 14 hypernyms of the word democracy. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for DEMOCRACY
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commonwealth | nounn | |||||||
noun • the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) • a politically organized body of people under a single government • a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another • a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | ||||||||
democratism | nounn | |||||||
noun • the theory, system, or principles of democracy. | ||||||||
republic | nounn | |||||||
noun • a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them • a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch | ||||||||
majority rule | nounn | |||||||
noun • the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group |