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pan> one who practices or believes in social equality //The American, if intellectually an aristocrat, was still socially and subconsciously a democrat. It had never crossed his mind that the poet should be counted lucky to know the squire and not the squire to know the poet. — G. K. Chesterton //He rejoiced to call himself a democrat, and would boast that rank could have no effect on him. — Anthony Trollope
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
egalitarian leveler (or leveller)
Examples
  • //a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
borrowed from French démocrate, derivative from the base of démocratie democracy or démocratique democratic, probably after aristocrate aristocrat
democrat
pan> one who practices or believes in social equality //The American, if intellectually an aristocrat, was still socially and subconsciously a democrat. It had never crossed his mind that the poet should be counted lucky to know the squire and not the squire to know the poet. — G. K. Chesterton //He rejoiced to call himself a democrat, and would boast that rank could have no effect on him. — Anthony Trollope
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
egalitarian leveler (or leveller)
Examples
  • //a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
borrowed from French démocrate, derivative from the base of démocratie democracy or démocratique democratic, probably after aristocrate aristocrat
democrat
pan> one who practices or believes in social equality //The American, if intellectually an aristocrat, was still socially and subconsciously a democrat. It had never crossed his mind that the poet should be counted lucky to know the squire and not the squire to know the poet. — G. K. Chesterton //He rejoiced to call himself a democrat, and would boast that rank could have no effect on him. — Anthony Trollope
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
egalitarian leveler (or leveller)
Examples
  • //a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
borrowed from French démocrate, derivative from the base of démocratie democracy or démocratique democratic, probably after aristocrate aristocrat
democrat
pan> one who practices or believes in social equality //The American, if intellectually an aristocrat, was still socially and subconsciously a democrat. It had never crossed his mind that the poet should be counted lucky to know the squire and not the squire to know the poet. — G. K. Chesterton //He rejoiced to call himself a democrat, and would boast that rank could have no effect on him. — Anthony Trollope
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
egalitarian leveler (or leveller)
Examples
  • //a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
borrowed from French démocrate, derivative from the base of démocratie democracy or démocratique democratic, probably after aristocrate aristocrat
democrat
pan> one who practices or believes in social equality //The American, if intellectually an aristocrat, was still socially and subconsciously a democrat. It had never crossed his mind that the poet should be counted lucky to know the squire and not the squire to know the poet. — G. K. Chesterton //He rejoiced to call himself a democrat, and would boast that rank could have no effect on him. — Anthony Trollope
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
egalitarian leveler (or leveller)
Examples
  • //a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
borrowed from French démocrate, derivative from the base of démocratie democracy or démocratique democratic, probably after aristocrate aristocrat
democrat
pan> one who practices or believes in social equality //The American, if intellectually an aristocrat, was still socially and subconsciously a democrat. It had never crossed his mind that the poet should be counted lucky to know the squire and not the squire to know the poet. — G. K. Chesterton //He rejoiced to call himself a democrat, and would boast that rank could have no effect on him. — Anthony Trollope
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
egalitarian leveler (or leveller)
Examples
  • //a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined at sense 2a
History and Etymology
borrowed from French démocrate, derivative from the base of démocratie democracy or démocratique democratic, probably after aristocrate aristocrat
democrat