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democracy - 6 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | democracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | government in which people participate |
| Synonyms: | commonwealth, emancipation, equality, freedom, justice, republic, suffrage, egalitarianism, equalitarianism, liberal government, representative government |
| Notes: | a democracy is confined to a small spot while a republic is extended over a large region |
| Main Entry: | capitalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic system of private ownership |
| Synonyms: | competition, democracy, free enterprise, private enterprise, commercialism, free market, industrialism, laissez faire economics, mercantilism |
| Antonyms: | communism |
| Main Entry: | commonwealth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political or geographic area |
| Synonyms: | body politic, democracy, federation, nation, people, republic, society, citizenry, citizens, commonality, polity |
| Main Entry: | liberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | abolition, deliverance, democracy, emancipation, freeing, liberty, release, salvation, sovereignty, setting free, unchaining, unshackling |
| Main Entry: | nation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country with its own government |
| Synonyms: | body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union, principality |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political independence |
| Synonyms: | abolition, autonomy, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, emancipation, exemption, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, rescue, salvage, salvation, sovereignty, abolitionism, autarchy, citizenship, disengagement, disimprisonment, enfranchisement, extriction, representative government, self-determination, self-government |
| Antonyms: | communism, government, subordination, suppression, subjection |
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