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demies

demies is the plural of demy.

Meaning of demy

Noun

demy (countable and uncountable, plural demies)

  1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
  2. (colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
    • […] by whose recommendations he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called scholars, young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships; […]1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132
  3. Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
    • William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen2013, Hedwig Gwosdek, “The grammar atttributed to William Lily”, in Lily's grammar of Latin in English : an introduction of the eyght partes of speche, and the construction of the same, Oxford...

Questions about demies

What is demies the plural of?
Demies is the plural of demy.

Words near demies in the dictionary

  1. demidistances
  2. demidivine
  3. Demidovka
  4. demie parure
  5. demie parures
  6. demies
  7. demiflat
  8. demiflats
  9. demigauntlet
  10. demigauntlets
  11. demigender

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