| 单词 | demotic |
| 释义 | demotic (once / 84424 pages) adj A demotic saying or expression is casual, colloquial, and used by the masses. Some forms of the Greek and Egyptian languages are also called demotic, which will be relevant to you when you get your PhD in Classics. Demotic comes from the Greek word demotikos, meaning “of or for the common people” or “in common use.” Members of the aristocracy don’t typically use demotic idioms, but it is often the elite who will point out that something is demotic. Of course, in a classless society, everything ought to be demotic, therefore making it obsolete to designate sayings as demotic. So far, however, demotic is still a relevant term. WORD FAMILYdemotic USAGE EXAMPLESReaction, Robin argues, is typically high theory as much as demotic practice. The New Yorker(Dec 07, 2016) “The artist of American democracy,” Robert Hughes called him, “yearningly faithful to its clamour, its contradictions, its hope and its enormous demotic freedom.” The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) Shooting on foot or from the back of a car, Barba pans across Brutalist towers, filthy ribbon windows, demotic apartments festooned with graffiti. The Guardian(Sep 20, 2016) adj of or for the common people demotic entertainments demotic speech a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms Syn common having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual Demotic (once / 454589 pages) nadj WORD FAMILY Demotic: Demotics USAGE EXAMPLESGovernment affairs were often conducted in Greek, but also in Demotic, the local everyday language derived from the more formal hieroglyphs. New York Times(Oct 06, 2014) Ebony, the name of the dark wood that was traded down the Nile from Nubia, present-day Sudan, also has Demotic origins. New York Times(Sep 21, 2012) It lives on in words like “adobe,” which came from “tby,” the Demotic for brick. New York Times(Sep 17, 2012) 1n a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek Syn|Hyper Demotic script hieratic, hieratic script a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests 2n the modern Greek vernacular Syn|Hyper Romaic Modern Greek, New Greek the Greek language as spoken and written today 3adj of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use |
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