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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
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Meaning of "democracies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEMOCRACIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMOCRACIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Democracies 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 DEMOCRACIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or indirectly through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws. It encompasses social, religious, cultural, ethnic and racial equality, justice, and liberty. The term originates from the Greek δημοκρατία "rule of the people", which was found from δῆμος "people" and κράτος "power" or "rule" in the 5th century BCE to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens; the term is an antonym to ἀριστοκρατία "rule of an elite". While theoretically these definitions are in opposition, in practice the distinction has been blurred historically. The political system of Classical Athens, for example, granted democratic citizenship to an elite class of free men and excluded slaves and women from political participation.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMOCRACIES

democracy
democrat
democratic
democratic centralism
democratic deficit
Democratic Party
Democratic People´s Republic of Korea
Democratic Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of Madagascar
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Democratic-Republican Party
democratical
democratically
democratifiable
democratisation
democratise
democratiser
democratist
democratization

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMOCRACIES

abbacies
accuracies
advocacies
agencies
aristocracies
autocracies
bureaucracies
confederacies
conspiracies
curacies
degeneracies
delegacies
delicacies
facies
fallacies
inaccuracies
intimacies
legacies
pharmacies
piracies
theocracies

Synonyms and antonyms of democracies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEMOCRACIES»

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

Translation of «democracies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMOCRACIES

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

Translator English - Chinese

民主
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

democracias
570 millions of speakers

English

democracies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लोकतंत्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الديمقراطيات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

демократии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

democracias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গণতন্ত্রে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

démocraties
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Demokrasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Demokratien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

民主主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

민주주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Demokrasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nền dân chủ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜனநாயக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोकशाही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

demokrasiler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

democrazie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

demokracje
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

демократії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

democrațiile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δημοκρατίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

demokrasieë
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

demokratier
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

demokratier
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of democracies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMOCRACIES»

The term «democracies» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.568 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMOCRACIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «democracies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «democracies» 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 democracies

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10 QUOTES WITH «DEMOCRACIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word democracies.
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Christiane Amanpour
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
2
Benazir Bhutto
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Benazir Bhutto
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
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Warren Christopher
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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James F. Cooper
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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James F. Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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James F. Cooper
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Jim Costa
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
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Robert A. Dahl
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
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Demosthenes
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMOCRACIES»

Discover the use of democracies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to democracies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rich Democracies, Poor People : How Politics Explain ...
An explicit challenge to mainstream views of poverty as an inescapable outcome of individual failings or a society's labor markets and demography, this book offers institutionalized power relations theory as an alternative explanation.
David Brady Associate Professor of Sociology Duke University, 2009
2
Violent Democracies in Latin America
The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a social aberration or the result of institutional failure; instead, it is intimately linked to the institutions and policies of economic liberalization and ...
Enrique Desmond Arias, Daniel M. Goldstein, 2010
3
Democracies: Challenges to Societal Health
Therefore, the collection of the 19th volume of Research in Political Sociology includes papers addressing these issues in a broad spectrum of countries from India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania, to Sweden, Canada and the United States.
Barbara Wejnert, 2011
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Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies
In addition to the complete hardcover edition, Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies is available in two paperback volumes, each introduced by the editors and organized for convenient course use.
Larry Diamond, 1997
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Political Parties in Western Democracies
What chiefly distinguishes this work is the inclusion of considerable material on American partics in a comparative context to the analysis of British, Scandinavian, European, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand political parties.
Leon D. Epstein, 1967
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Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson.
Michael Schudson, 2013
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The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens
Athens is often considered to have been the birth place of democracy but there were many democracies in Greece during the Classical period and this is a study of the other democratic states.
Eric W. Robinson, 1997
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Multinational Democracies
In this 2001 book, political scientists provide a collaborative study of multinational democracies and the difficulties in governing them.
Alain-G. Gagnon, James Tully, 2001
9
India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991
An analysis of the entire five-decade relationship between the U.S. & India, including India's close ties with the former Soviet Union.
Dennis Kux, 1992
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The Self-restraining State: Power and Accountability in New ...
This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself.
Andreas Schedler, Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMOCRACIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term democracies is used in the context of the following news items.
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DC ranks high in 'health of state democracies' list. Virginia does not.
The District, which was included in the “state democracies” list even though it's not a state, earned an A- in the first two categories, but a D in the ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
Russia may ban Soros charity in NGO crackdown
It aims to promote "vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens," according to the Open Society ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
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ISIS is forcing the West to consider a risky strategy
... fight against the Islamic State," Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, writes in Politico. «Business Insider, Jul 15»
4
Pope's South American tour recalls a divided church – and a dirty war
... we continue having in Bolivia,” Father Xavier Albo told the Catholic news site The Pilot, “with all the ups and downs that democracies have.” ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Abbott, Abe and Modi can realign Asia-Pacific
Relations between Japan and India, Asia's oldest democracies, have been reinvigorated over the past 12 months by an alignment of the ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Ghana's NDC reclaim seat
Ghana has one of the most stable democracies in a region that experiences regular changes of power. The NDC's Benson Tongo Baba won ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
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The Chinese stock market debacle is a wake-up call about the …
They look at sclerotic democracies that can never get reforms past interest groups and long for an authoritarian pro-business regime that can ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
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What Would Socrates Do With Greece?
Secondly, I think he would puncture the posturing. One of the problems with democracies -- do I need to mention that this is another Greek idea ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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The Policy Implications of Hacking the Hacking Team
Hacking Team's clients include not only repressive governments but also government agencies in democracies, including EU members and the ... «Council on Foreign Relations, Jul 15»
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Using religion to fight terrorism
A second question we must ask ourselves – and one that is perhaps even more important – is to what extent Western democracies are really ... «Qantara.de, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Democracies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/democracies>. Apr 2024 ».
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