Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The common people; the populace.
- noun The common people of an ancient Greek state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, the people; the public; the commonwealth.
- noun The populace; the common people.
- noun Also
demus . - noun In sociology, a people which has outgrown the tribal system and is organized on the basis of neighborhood and varied modes of coöperation instead of on the basis of blood-kinship; a social body which, since blood-relationships are no longer important, includes individuals of various lineages or nationalities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural of
demo . - noun political science The
common populace of astate , thepeople . - noun
municipality , an administrative area covering a city or several villages together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This looked fast enough in demos; then again, doesn't everything?
Close up with Windows Phone 7 Rob Pegoraro 2010
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I've come to the conclusion that democracy must fail because the demos is either too ignorant or unintelligent for it to work.
Leviathan Montgomery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Kim Moser has lovingly captured a bunch of old Commodore PET and C-64 demos from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and saved them as movies you can play online.
Boing Boing 2007
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I got the demos from a good friend in the UK, who asked me to listen to them and see what I thought.
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I got the demos from a good friend in the UK, who asked me to listen to them and see what I thought.
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Comments (3) moa: actually the swedish word for demos is the same as the english one ...
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The album features final cuts of the demo songs that I'd posted here as well as versions of the other demos from the Tramavirtual site, but everything on the CD is tight as a drum - the tracks are totally dialed.
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Someone should take Eppink aside and quietly explain the meaning of the word demos and then point out that there is no European demos, without which electing an EU president would be a meaningless charade.
They are afraid of the people Richard 2007
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Someone should take Eppink aside and quietly explain the meaning of the word demos and then point out that there is no European demos, without which electing an EU president would be a meaningless charade.
Archive 2007-09-01 Richard 2007
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The album features final cuts of the demo songs that I'd posted here as well as versions of the other demos from the Tramavirtual site, but everything on the CD is tight as a drum - the tracks are totally dialed.
take the foxxx to the luxx and make some bucks (Music (For Robots)) 2005
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