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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elector |
| Synonyms: | balloter, citizen, resident, suffragist, taxpayer |
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| Main Entry: | electorate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voters |
| Synonyms: | body politic, constituency, registered voters, voter |
| Main Entry: | elector |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | citizen who votes |
| Synonyms: | balloter, constituent, voter |
| Main Entry: | constituency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | voting public |
| Synonyms: | balloters, body of voters, body politic, citizenry, city, county, district, electorate, electors, faction, nation, people, precinct, state, system, voters, voting area, ward |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political territory; nation |
| Synonyms: | citizenry, citizens, commonwealth, community, constituents, electors, grass roots, homeland, inhabitants, kingdom, land, native land, patria, people, polity, populace, public, realm, region, society, soil, sovereign state, state, terrain, voters |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people of community; people interested in something |
| Synonyms: | audience, bodies, buyers, citizens, clientele, commonalty, community, country, electorate, everyone, followers, following, heads, masses, men and women, mob, multitude, nation, patrons, people, populace, population, society, suite, supporters, voters |
| Main Entry: | everyone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | all |
| Synonyms: | anybody, each one, each person, every one, every person, everybody, everyman, everyone, generality, masses, people, populace, the public, the whole, voters |
| Notes: | everyone is correct if you can substitute the word everybody - as it is a noun that means 'every person'; every one is a pronoun meaning 'each one' |
| Antonyms: | no one, nobody |
| Main Entry: | registration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | those who have registered |
| Synonyms: | delegation, enrollment, registrants, students, turnout, voters |
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| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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