democrat(n.) 1790, "adherent or advocate of democracy," with reference to France, from Frenchdémocrate(18c., opposed toaristocrate), back-formation fromdémocratie(seedemocracy); formally revived in U.S. as a political party affiliation 1798, with a capitalD. As a shortening of this,Demo(...
in U.S. political jargon, usually meaning "moderate; independent," 1881, from elements of the names of the two dominant parties; seerepublican(n.) anddemocrat(n.). Advertisement Trends ofdemocrat Sharedemocrat ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/democrat ...
the second edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, and - - The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (the one that comes with the magnifying glass) –and couldn't find any coverage of the word. I am curious about the origin, meaning, and syntactical application of ...
From late 15c. as "the operations of chance." Meaning "an unplanned child" is attested by 1932.Accident-proneis from 1926. Advertisement Trends ofaccidence Shareaccidence ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/accidence Etymology of accidence by etymonline Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology ...
and in some of them the word has narrowed to mean "husband." PIE had two other "man" roots:*uiHro"freeman" (source of Sanskritvira-, Lithuanianvyras, Latinvir, Old Irishfer, Gothicwair; see*wi-ro-) and*hner"man," a title more of honor than*uiHro(source of Sanskritnar-, Armenian...
1610s; the same word as emir (q.v.), but generally used of contemporary Indian or Afghan rulers as opposed to historical ones. emirate (n.) "rule or territory of an emir," 1847; see emir + -ate (1).AdvertisementTrends of emir adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are pro...
in Latinized form democratie. In 19c. England it could refer to "the class of people which has no hereditary or other rank, the common people." In 19c. U.S. politics it could mean "principles or members of the Democratic Party." Democracy implies that the man must take the ...
"action or process of becoming democratic; act of rendering democratic," 1860; seedemocratize+-ation. We teach the population at the cheapest possible rate; and the aim all the democratization (if we may use the word) of literature proposes to itself in this country, is to store the minds...
Prefixed to a word beginning withe,re-is separated by a hyphen, asre-establish,re-estate,re-edify, etc. ; or else the secondehas a dieresis over it: as,reëstablish,reëmbark, etc. The hyphen is also sometimes used to bring out emphatically the sense of repetition or iteration : as...
Middle English -ik, -ick, word-forming element making adjectives, "having to do with, having the nature of, being, made of, caused by, similar to," from French -ique and directly from Latin -icus or from cognate Greek -ikos "in the manner of; pertaining to." From PIE adjective suff...