Democrat
Democrat noun - One who advocates or practices social equality.
Usage example: a true democrat, he has always abhorred that nation's class system
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Synonyms for Democrat
Socialist and democrat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Socialist" instead a noun "Democrat".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- labour and democrat
- labour and socialist
- representative and democrat
- representative and socialist
- left-wing and democrat
- left-wing and socialist
- communist and democrat
- communist and socialist
- collectivist and democrat
- collectivist and socialist
- marxist and democrat
- marxist and socialist
- left-winger and democrat
- left-winger and socialist
Both words in one sentence
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Witness "the rainbow" (for a socialist/ecologist/liberal alliance); "the violet" (socialist/liberal); "the olive tree" (socialist/ecologist/Christian-democrat); or "the blue orange" (Christian-democrat/liberal).
Source: Useful Notes / Belgium - In the 1912 election there was a "Progressive" Candidate (Teddy Roosevelt), a Democrat, a Republican and an open socialist.
Source: Reality Is Unrealistic / General -
The first is Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont who identifies himself as a socialist (in reality, he's more of a standard European-style social democrat stuck in the more right-wing US), campaigns as an independent but for all intents and purposes caucuses ("hangs out") with the Democrats.
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Socialist and Democrat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/democrat/socialist
Democrat & Socialist. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/democrat/socialist>.
Socialist or Democrat. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/democrat/socialist.
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