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Definition: DEMOCRACIES |
DEMOCRACIESPlural1. Of Democracy |
Date "DEMOCRACIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Crosswords: DEMOCRACIES |
| Specialty definitions using "DEMOCRACIES": Emerging Markets Program. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Alexis De Tocqueville | The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. |
James F. Cooper | The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If the Western Democracies stand together in strict adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter, their influence for furthering those principles will be immense and no one is likely to molest them. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ghana | The 1979 constitution was modeled on those of Western democracies. (references) |
Spain | Spain and the U.S. enjoy excellent bilateral relations as industrial democracies and NATO allies. (references) | |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg enjoys a degree of economic prosperity almost unique among industrialized democracies. (references) | |
Political Economy | Denmark | Today Denmark is among the most politically stable democracies. (references) |
Denmark | Ministers have no political Deputy Ministers or Secretaries of State as in other parliamentary democracies. (references) | |
BELGIUM | Belgium possesses a highly developed market economy, the tenth largest among the OECD industrialized democracies. (references) | |
Trade | Indonesia | Since beginning operation in 1971, OPIC has been the key U.S. government agency encouraging American private business investment in developing countries, newly emerging democracies, and fledgling free market economies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Our alliances with major partners, the great industrial democracies of Western Europe, Japan, and Canada, have never been more solid. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This requires strong economic performance by the industrialized democracies like ourselves and progress in resolving the global energy crisis. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Since the turn of the century, the number of democracies in the world has grown fourfold. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Democracies don't attack each other, they make better trading partners and partners in diplomacy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DEMOCRACIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DEMOCRACIES" is used about 352 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 352 | 15,213 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DEMOCRACIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 民主 (Democracy, Democratic, Democratical, Democratically). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | Fractie Europa van Democratieën in Diversiteit (Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities), EDD (Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities). (various references) | ||||
French | groupe pour l'Europe des démocraties et des différences (Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities), EDD (Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities). (various references) | ||||
German | Demokratien. (various references) | ||||
Italian | Gruppo per l'Europa delle democrazie e delle diversit (Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities), EDD (Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 민주주의 (Democracy, Democratic, Democratical). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emocraciesday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"DEMOCRACIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Demokratiei, Domocracia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEMOCRACIES" (pronounced di'mÄ"krusēz) |
| 7 | -Ä" k r u s ē z | bureaucracies. |
| 5 | -r u s ē z | conspiracies. |
| 4 | -u s ē z | accuracies, archdiocese, candidacies, courtesies, delicacies, embassies, fallacies, fantasies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, pharmacies, policies, privacies, prophecies. |
| 3 | -s ē z | agencies, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fancies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, prognoses, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-m-o-r-s" | |
-2 letters: coadmires, medicares. | |
-3 letters: acceders, casimere, ceramics, cicorees, coadmire, comedies, comrades, deciares, ecocides, emeroids, idocrase, medicare, mediocre, racemoid, racemose, screamed, seadrome. | |
-4 letters: acceder, accedes, accords, acerose, admires, amerced, amerces, cameoed, carices, caromed, ceramic, ciceros, cicoree, codeias, codices, coerced, coerces, comedic, comrade, coremia, creamed, creased, dearies, decares, deciare, decries, deicers, diocese, dormice, ecocide, emerods, emeroid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-m-o-r-s" | |
+3 letters: commercialised. | |
+4 letters: electrodynamics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4D 4F 43 52 41 43 49 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- --- -.-. .-. .- -.-. .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001101 01001111 01000011 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E M O C R A C I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004D 004F 0043 0052 0041 0043 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3839474937523537433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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