demo-, dem-, demio-, -demic, -deme, -demically (Greek: people).From district, country, land, and the people who inhabit those territories.demagogue, demagog, demagogical:
1. A political leader who gains power by apealing to people's emotions and prejudices rather than their rationality.
2. In ancient times, a popular leader who represented the ordinay people. demagoguery:
The character, behavior, tactics, or rhetoric of a demagogue.
democracy:
1. The free and equal right of every person to participae in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
2. A country with a government that has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens. 3. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes. democrat:
Someone who believes in democracy and the democratic system of government and argues in favor of them.
democratic, democratically:
Characterized by free and equal participation in government or in the decision-making processes of an organization or group.
democratize, democratized, democratization, democratizing:
1. To put a country under the control of its citizens by allowing hem to participate in a government of decision-making processes in a free and equal way.
2. To take steps toward establishing the features of liberal democracy in a state. 3. To put an organization under the control of its members by giving them free and equal decision-making powers. demographer:
Someone who studies human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death.
demographic, demographically:
Relating to demography or demographics.
demographics:
The characteristics of a human population or part of it; especially its size, growth, density, distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death (requires a plural verb).
demography:
The study of human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution; as well as, statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death.
demomania:
The apparent excessive attachment to the "common people".
demomaniac:
Someone who is perceived to have an excessive attachment to the "common people".
demophil:
Having a fondness or love of people; a friend of the people.
demophile:
A person who has a fondness for people.
demophilia:
Having a special interest in the lives and habits of the masses.
demotic:
1. Relating to or involving ordinary people.
2. Relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics, the writing system used in ancient Egypt. Literally, "of the people". endemic:
1. Used to describe a disease occurring within a specific area, region, or locale.
2. Characteristic of a particular place or among a particular group or area of interest or activity. Literally, "in the people". epidemic, epidemical:
An outbreak of a disease that spreads more quickly and more extensively among a group of people than would normally be expected.
epidemicity:
The quality of being epidemic.
epidemiography:
A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.
epidemiologist:
A specialist in the medical study of causes and transmissions of diseases among people.
epidemiology:
1. The scientific and medical study of the causes and transmission of disease within a population.
2. The origin and development characteristics of a particular disease. pandemia:
Of or belonging to the whole people, public, general.
pandemic:
1. General, universal; especially, of a disease.
2. Prevalent over the whole of a country or continent, or over the whole world. Distinguished from epidemic, which may connote limitation to a smaller area. 3. plutodemocracy:
1. Plutocratic government which masquerades as democracy.
2. A country or state that purports to be a democracy but where power lies with the rich. theodemocracy:
A democracy under divine, or religious, rule.
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