demotic

Speech parts

1. demotic - Noun

2. demotic - Adjective

3. demotic - Adjective Satellite

4. Demotic - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

romaic Demotic script common popular jive folk everyday informal vernacular colloquial vulgar idiomatic Modern Greek chatty dialectal

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Antonyms

different individual special weird unique formal

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Hypernyms

Modern Greek hieratic New Greek hieratic script

Phrases with the word

demotic character

Examples

...slang...the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight. Anthony Burgess

Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek Source: Internet

demotic entertainments Source: Internet

demotic speech Source: Internet

a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms Source: Internet

According to one estimation, "Homeric Greek is probably closer to demotic than 12-century Middle English is to modern spoken English." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

demotee demoter demothball demotic character Demotic Greek Demotic script