demy
demy noun: a printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
Noun
demy (countable and uncountable, plural demies)
- A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
- 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
- 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...
demy meaning in Tamil
demy in Tamil
- தாளின் ஒரளவு
Forms of demy
| plural | demies |
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Origin of demy
* (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.
Words formed from demy
- double demy
- junior demy
- music demy
- quad demy
- senior demy
Questions about demy
- What does demy mean?
- Demy means a printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
- What is demy in Tamil?
- Demy in Tamil is தாளின் ஒரளவு. See Demy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is demy?
- Demy is a noun.
- What is the plural of demy?
- The plural of demy is demies.
Words near demy in the dictionary
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