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Meaning of "demagogue" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEMAGOGUE

From Greek dēmagōgos people's leader, from dēmos people + agein to lead.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DEMAGOGUE

demagogue  [ˈdɛməˌɡɒɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMAGOGUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Demagogue is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEMAGOGUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

demagogue

Demagogue

A demagogue /ˈdɛməɡɒɡ/ or rabble-rouser is a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices, and ignorance of the lower classes in order to gain power and promote political motives. Demagogues usually oppose deliberation and advocate immediate, violent action to address a national crisis; they accuse moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness. Demagogues have appeared in democracies since ancient Athens. They exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: because ultimate power is held by the people, nothing stops the people from giving that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population.

Definition of demagogue in the English dictionary

The definition of demagogue in the dictionary is a political agitator who appeals with crude oratory to the prejudice and passions of the mob. Other definition of demagogue is any popular political leader or orator.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEMAGOGUE


emmenagogue
ɪˈmɛnəˌɡɒɡ
galactagogue
ɡəˈlæktəˌɡɒɡ
haemagogue
ˈhiːməˌɡɒɡ
hemagog
ˈhiːməˌɡɒɡ
hemagogue
ˈhiːməˌɡɒɡ
hydragog
ˈhaɪdrəˌɡɒɡ
hydragogue
ˈhaɪdrəˌɡɒɡ
mystagog
ˈmɪstəˌɡɒɡ
mystagogue
ˈmɪstəˌɡɒɡ
paragogue
ˈpærəˌɡɒɡ
pedagog
ˈpɛdəˌɡɒɡ
pedagogue
ˈpɛdəˌɡɒɡ
phlegmagogue
ˈflɛməˌɡɒɡ
psychagogue
ˈsaɪkəˌɡɒɡ
ptyalagogue
taɪˈæləˌɡɒɡ
sialagogue
ˈsaɪələˌɡɒɡ
sialogogue
ˈsaɪələˌɡɒɡ
synagogue
ˈsɪnəˌɡɒɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMAGOGUE

demagnetisation
demagnetise
demagnetiser
demagnetization
demagnetize
demagnetizer
demagog
demagogic
demagogical
demagogically
demagogies
demagogism
demagoguery
demagoguism
demagogy
demain
demaine
demand
demand bill
demand deposit

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMAGOGUE

analogue
back catalogue
bogue
brogue
card catalogue
catalogue
cholagogue
dialogue
drogue
epilogue
Hogue
homologue
ideologue
Minogue
monologue
prologue
rogue
secretagogue
travelogue
vogue

Synonyms and antonyms of demagogue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEMAGOGUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «demagogue» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of demagogue

Translation of «demagogue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMAGOGUE

Find out the translation of demagogue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of demagogue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demagogue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

煽动者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

demagogo
570 millions of speakers

English

demagogue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुर्जनों का नेता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غوغائي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

демагог
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

demagogo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জননেতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

démagogue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Demagog
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Demagoge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

扇動政治家
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선동가
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Demagog
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nịnh dân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வார்த்தைஜாலக்காரனும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थकबाकी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

demagog
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

demagogo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

demagogiem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

демагог
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

demagog
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

δημαγωγός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

demagoog
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

demagog
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

demagog
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of demagogue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMAGOGUE»

The term «demagogue» is normally little used and occupies the 121.698 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMAGOGUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «demagogue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «demagogue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about demagogue

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMAGOGUE»

Discover the use of demagogue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demagogue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies
To find the solution to democracy's demagogue problem, the book delves into the stories of four great thinkers who all personally struggled with democracy--Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt.
Michael Signer, 2009
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No Sense Of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue ...
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political ...
Robert Shogan, 2009
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The Demagogue and Lady Phayre
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
William John Locke, 2010
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A Study in Shadows and The Demagogue and Lady Phayre
This is one of 28 works by Locke available from Kessinger Publishing.
William J. Locke, 2004
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The Demagogue
This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Anon, 2009
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The Demagogue by Theophilus Thorn, Esq
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
William Falconer, 2010
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Brief Outline of an Analysis of the Human Intellect: ...
From the limitation of the primary and the memorial constituents, the number of the demagogue's perceptions, beyond the subject of his immediate affairs, must be few, compared with those of the broadly observative and reflective mind.
James Rush, 1865
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The Rhetorical Presidency
The original Greek meaning of "demagogue" was simply "leader of the people" and the word was applied in premodern times to champions of the people's claim to rule, as opposed to the claims of aristocrats and monarchs. As James Ceaser ...
Jeffrey Tulis, 1987
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Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New ...
difficult for the people to tell the difference between the sage and the demagogue . With the example of Napoleon never far from his mind, the narrator explains that it is in the interest of the demagogue for the people to squander their freedom, ...
Emory Elliott, 1986
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The Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures
for resorting to the older usage in which the term demagogue is equivalent merely to a popular leader. In this sense the word lends itself well to technical use for a special form of leadership. Insincerity, as applied to the motives of a leader, like ...
Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMAGOGUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demagogue is used in the context of the following news items.
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The demagogue cometh: The Donald Trump campaign
Donald Trump is playing one of the most notable roles in American bourgeois politics, that of the populist demagogue who plays on people's ... «Liberation, Jul 15»
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Factional rival Turnbull publicly condemns policies of Australian …
... is offering himself to the establishment as a better vehicle than a demagogue like Abbott for pushing through the agenda of big business. «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 15»
3
Demagoguery, Donald Trump, and Charles Coughlin
Demagogue: a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, fears, prejudices, and ignorance of the lower socioeconomic ... «kpfa 94.1fm, Jul 15»
4
Special Report The Sanctuary Country
It is okay to demagogue the issue on behalf of amnesty by waxing poetic about the glorious benefits and noble motivations of illegal ... «American Spectator, Jul 15»
5
Politics and Prejudices: Marriage and crazy people
They both lost the demagogue prize, however, to Bobby Jindal, the possibly deranged governor of Louisiana, who had a far simpler remedy for ... «Detroit Metro Times, Jul 15»
6
John Horgan: Yee's blatant grandstanding mercifully a thing of the past
In the end, he was merely a charlatan, a demagogue who pretended to defend the little guy while milking the system for his own benefit. «Chico Enterprise-Record, Jul 15»
7
Trump is a bad deal for the GOP
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who governs like a banana republic demagogue, has declared he is reviewing Trump's contracts with the city. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
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What's the Greek word for self-deception?
“Tsipras embodies all the vices of the typical Greek demagogue: He tells a nation that feels defeated exactly what it wants to hear, in defiance of ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
9
Meet the Poet Who Fled for Her Life After Protesting Against …
It's like the quintessential power play for any demagogue trying to rally power is to make it about religion, make it about ethnicity, make it as ... «VICE News, Jul 15»
10
Rubio's impressive economic speech
He's not going to be pigeon-holed as an anti-government demagogue or an anti-immigrant crank. As for his competitors, he provides a striking ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

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