Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Demy   Listen
noun
Demy  n.  (pl. demies)  
1.
A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
2.
A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. (Written also demi) "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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Demy" Quotes from Famous Books



... The best book on Grapes. By Archibald F. Barron, late Superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Chiswick, and Secretary of the Fruit Committee.—A New and Cheaper Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo, Handsomely Bound in Cloth. Price, 5s.; post ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster



Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com