"demotic" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/ [UK], /dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demotic.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|δημοτικός||common}} Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), {{m|grc|δημότης||commoner}} δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), {{m|grc|δῆμος||the common people}} δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} demotic (not comparable)
  1. Of or for the common people. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular Translations (of or for the common people): на простолюдието (na prostoljudieto) (Bulgarian), kansanomainen (Finnish), demoottinen (Finnish), rahvaanomainen (Finnish), κοινός (koinós) [masculine] (Greek), népi (Hungarian), népies (Hungarian), coiteann (Irish), demotic (Romanian), наро́дный (naródnyj) (Russian), простонаро́дный (prostonaródnyj) (Russian), demotisk (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-demotic-en-adj-GrNbyxI- Disambiguation of 'of or for the common people': 98 1 1
  2. Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors. Tags: not-comparable Categories (place): Egypt Synonyms: enchorial Translations (of the cursive ancient Egyptian script): démotický (Czech), demoottinen (Finnish), démotique (French), demotisch (German), coiteann (Irish), демоти́ческий (demotíčeskij) (Russian), demótico (Spanish), demotisk (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-demotic-en-adj-TGhYkfPE Disambiguation of Egypt: 0 100 0 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 35 29 30 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 38 26 33 Disambiguation of 'of the cursive ancient Egyptian script': 4 94 2
  3. Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek. Tags: not-comparable Translations (of modern vernacular Greek): demootinen (Finnish), démotique (French), δημοτικός (dimotikós) (Greek), δημώδης (dimódis) (Greek), coiteann (Irish), димоти́ческий (dimotíčeskij) (Russian), demótico (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-demotic-en-adj-IVKVDeZE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Greek Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 35 29 30 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 38 26 33 Disambiguation of Greek: 4 8 78 10 Disambiguation of 'of modern vernacular Greek': 17 8 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: demoticist Related terms: Demotic Greek, demotist

Noun

IPA: /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/ [UK], /dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demotic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: demotics [plural]
Etymology: First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|δημοτικός||common}} Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), {{m|grc|δημότης||commoner}} δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), {{m|grc|δῆμος||the common people}} δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} demotic (countable and uncountable, plural demotics)
  1. (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (language of the common people): Umgangssprache [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-demotic-en-noun-lXMu7AXj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 35 29 30 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 38 26 33 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "Demotic Greek"
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      "word": "demotist"
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        {
          "text": "demotic writing style",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19",
          "text": "Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 31, Robert McCrum, “The 100 best nonfiction books: No 40 – The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (1937)”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "An enthusiastic literary critical response ranged from Graham Greene, who admired Byron’s demotic, conversational brilliance, to the rivalrous Evelyn Waugh, who had to concede the book’s high spirits, via the Sunday Times, which linked Byron to his namesake (no relation) and declared him “the last and finest fruit of the insolent humanism of the 18th century”.",
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        }
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          "word": "colloquial"
        },
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          "word": "informal"
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          "word": "popular"
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          "word": "vernacular"
        }
      ],
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      ]
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        "Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors."
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        {
          "word": "enchorial"
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        "not-comparable"
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        "Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek."
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/",
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        "US"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "na prostoljudieto",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "на простолюдието"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "kansanomainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "demoottinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "rahvaanomainen"
    },
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "koinós",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "népi"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "népies"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "coiteann"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "demotic"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naródnyj",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "наро́дный"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prostonaródnyj",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "простонаро́дный"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "of or for the common people",
      "word": "demotisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
      "word": "démotický"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
      "word": "demoottinen"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
      "word": "démotique"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
      "word": "demotisch"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
      "word": "coiteann"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "demotíčeskij",
      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
      "word": "демоти́ческий"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "of the cursive ancient Egyptian script",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "el",
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      "word": "δημοτικός"
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "dimódis",
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      "word": "δημώδης"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
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      "word": "coiteann"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of modern vernacular Greek",
      "word": "demótico"
    }
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}

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        "UK"
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈmɑ.tɪk/",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "language of the common people",
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      ],
      "word": "Umgangssprache"
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