demotic
demotic
Definition
de·motic (dē mät′ik)
adjective
- of the people; popular; specif., vernacular (sense )
- in or of idiomatic, colloquial, everyday language a novelist with a good ear for demotic dialogue
- designating or of a simplified system of ancient Egyptian writing
Etymology: ML demoticus < Gr dēmotikos < dēmotes, one of the people < dēmos: see democracy
noun
- Romaic
- everyday language; the way real people speak
Demotic
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- language: This is a short, lively, and readable introduction to recent developments in demotic language.
- Scot: In spite of an Edinburgh childhood, and a later recognition of the splendid vernacular Garioch employed, Edinburgh demotic wisnae ma Scots.
- script: It is in demotic script, which records the language actually spoken in Egypt at the time.
- form: The iconography of contemporary history had by this time become a demotic art form.
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