Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

demy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.91 in modern English

Syllables: de-my
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.

Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable

noun

Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132, […] 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; […]"
"William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen"

Etymology

* (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: demi-socii

Usage

Inflected Forms

demies (plural)

Phrases

double demy junior demy music demy quad demy senior demy

Questions

What does demy mean?: A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
Where does demy come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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