demo-, dem-, demio-, -demic, -deme, -demically +

1. In a bad sense: a leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator.
2. In ancient times, a popular leader who represented the ordinay people.
3. In ancient times, a leader of the people; a popular leader or orator who espoused the cause of the people against any other party in the state.

1. Government by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a whole, and is exercised either directly by them (as in the small republics of antiquity) or by officers elected by them.

In modern usage, often more vaguely denoting a social state in which everyone has equal rights, without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege.

2. A state or community in which the government is vested in the people as a whole.
3. The free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
4. A country with a government which has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens.
5. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes.

1. Someone who believes in democracy and the democratic system of government and argues in favor of them.
2. An adherent or advocate of democracy; originally, one of the republicans of the French Revolution of 1790 (opposed to aristocrats).
3. A member of the Democratic party, a political party in the U.S.

Characterized by free and equal participation in government or in the decision-making processes of an organization or group.

1. To put a country under the control of its citizens by allowing hem to participate in a government of decision-making processes in a free and equal way.
2. To take steps toward establishing the features of liberal democracy in a state.
3. To put an organization under the control of its members by giving them free and equal decision-making powers.

1. Someone who studies human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death.
2. One who specializes in human statistical data.

Relating to demography or demographics.

The characteristics of a human population or part of it; especially its size, growth, density, distribution, and statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death (requires a plural verb).

The study of human populations, including their size, growth, density, and distribution; as well as, statistics regarding birth, marriage, disease, and death.

The apparent excessive attachment to the "common people".

Someone who is perceived to have an excessive attachment to the "common people".

A word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place.

In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word; such as, the "French" (which refers to the language and/or the people).

Having a fondness or love of people; a friend of the people.

A person who has a fondness for people.

Having a special interest in the lives and habits of the masses.