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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 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.
  • noun In Greek antiquity, the people; the public; the commonwealth.
  • noun The populace; the common people.
  • noun Also demus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun political science The common populace of a state, the people.
  • noun municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together
  • noun Plural of demo.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek dēmos, district, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Ancient Greek δῆμος (demos, "the people").

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Abbreviated form of demonstration.

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