democrat
noun
[ ˈdɛməkrat ]
• an advocate or supporter of democracy.
• "as a democrat, I accepted the outcome of the referendum"
• (in the US) a member of the Democratic Party.
Origin:
late 18th century (originally denoting an opponent of the aristocrats in the French Revolution of 1790): from French démocrate, on the pattern of aristocrate ‘aristocrat’.
