Deme meaning

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One of the townships of ancient Attica.
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A local, usually stable population of interbreeding organisms of the same species.
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Any of the more than 100 districts into which ancient Attica was divided.
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A particular interbreeding population within a species.
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A local, usually stable population of interbreeding organisms of the same species.
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A small, locally interbreeding group of organisms within a larger population. Demes are isolated reproductively from other members of their species, although the isolation may only be partial and is not necessarily permanent. Because they share a somewhat restricted gene pool, members of a deme generally differ morphologically to some degree from members of other demes.
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A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica.
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(ecology) A distinct local population of plants or animals.
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Origin of deme

  • Greek dēmos people, land dā- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Ancient Greek δῆμος (demos, “district”).
    From Wiktionary

Deme Sentence Examples

  • In the deme of Colonus he was worshipped with Athena, the reputed inventor of the bridle.

  • Secondly, he established deme law-courts to prevent people from having recourse to the city tribunals; it is said that he himself occasionally "went on circuit," and on one of these occasions was so struck by the plaints of an old farmer on Hymettus, that he remitted all taxation on his land.

  • The brother and sister returned to Mycenae; Iphigeneia deposited the image in the deme of Brauron in Attica, where she remained as priestess of Artemis Brauronia.

  • TYRTAEUS, Greek elegiac poet, lived at Sparta about the middle of the 7th century B.C. According to the older tradition he was a native of the Attic deme of Aphidnae, and was invited to Sparta at the suggestion of the Delphic oracle to assist the Spartans in the second Messenian war.

  • In the Attic deme Melita he was invoked as 6W /caws (" Helper in ills "), at Olympia as KaXAlvcrcos (" Nobly-victorious "), in the rustic worship of the Oetaeans as eopvoiricov (K6pv01rEs, " locusts "), by the Erythraeans of Ionia as tlrotcrdvos (" Canker-worm-slayer ").

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