DEMOCRATIC

adjective Date: 1602 of, relating to, or favoring democracy, of or relating to one of the two major political parties in the United States evolving in the early 19th century from the anti-federalists and the Democratic-Republican party and associated in modern times with policies of broad social reform and internationalism, relating to, appealing to, or available to the broad masses of the people , favoring social equality ; not snobbish, ~ally adverb