Synonyms: popular, democratic
Definition: representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
Usage: democratic art forms; a democratic or popular movement; popular thought; popular science; popular fiction
Similar words: common
Definition: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
Usage: the common man; a common sailor; the common cold; a common nuisance; followed common procedure; it is common knowledge that she lives alone; the common housefly; a common brand of soap
Synonyms: democratic
Definition: characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality
Usage: democratic government; a democratic country; a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords- George du Maurier
Similar words: antiauthoritarian
Definition: opposed to authoritarianism
Similar words: egalitarian, classless
Definition: favoring social equality
Usage: a classless society
Similar words: parliamentary
Definition: having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament
Usage: parliamentary government
Similar words: parliamentary
Definition: in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly
Usage: parliamentary law
Similar words: participatory
Definition: affording the opportunity for individual participation
Usage: participatory democracy
Similar words: popular
Definition: carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large
Usage: the popular vote; popular representation; institutions of popular government
Similar words: representative
Definition: being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives
Usage: representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people
Similar words: republican
Definition: having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government
Usage: the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government- United States Constitution; a very republican notion; so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment- Philip Marsh; our republican and artistic simplicity-Nathaniel Hawthorne