2. Noun. (plural of democrat) ¹
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Definition of Democrats
1. democrat [n] - See also: democrat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Democrats
Literary usage of Democrats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"Middlesex County conventions of Democrats and Free-Soilers. ... IN the year 1848
there were thousands of Democrats who sympathized, for various reasons, ..."
2. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"So much did the Old Whigs dislike the Democrats that the white party was during
Reconstruction called the Conservative party, not Democratic. ..."
3. Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina: A Chapter of by Walter Allen (1888)
"The Election on November 7th Accomplished without Bloodshed — Excitement Regarding
the Result — Democrats Apply to the Supreme ..."
4. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1913)
"himself with the Democrats, reorganize national politics, and displacing Seward (with
... Democrats are anxious to support you, and hence it is of the first ..."
5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"The President was a Democrat; in the Cabinet were Democrats; and what was far
more serious, fifteen States carried for Harrison in were carried, ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"The Republicans carried Ohio by 6636, the Democrats Indiana by 5084. ...
The Republicans asserted that if the Democrats gained control of the government ..."
7. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Paul Shorey, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1892)
"The democrats had lost much by their defeat, while the republicans had gained
... As the democrats had a majority in the senate and asr the president was a ..."