| Noun | 1. | democracy - the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | |
| 2. | democracy - a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent themWeimar Republic - the German republic founded at Weimar in 1919; "The Weimar Republic was overthrown in 1933 and replaced by the Third Reich" | |
| 3. | democracy - the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | |