How we define Democracy?

I think we can all agree that the most mystical and misleading word used in Pakistan these days is "Democracy". People are dropping this word causally on tv shows, in newspapers and in daily coversations with out realising how much weight it actually carries? Do we all actually understand the definition of this word?  How much power it has to effects and shapes a nation? When will we be ready to have a serious debate on what it is and what it should be?
According to dictionary definition "democracy is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections ". If we are being more precise then its "rule of people" or "power of majority". In democracy we have to bear things for the greater good.

Then I wonder how come people of Pakistan started to see democracy as "rule of individual" or "Power of I". Why are we bluring the differene between dictatorship and democracy. More importantly we have isolated democracy from civil society. Democracy is not revealed from skys. People struggle hard to build it and then struggle even more harder to maintain it. But its impossible to accomplish without fully understanding the different aspects of democracy and vital role civil society plays in it.
I will try cover these aspect in next posts to my best of knowledge.