Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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democracy | Yes | No | No | No |
commonwealth | Yes | No | No | No |
democracy (noun) | commonwealth (noun) |
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the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another |
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) |