English Explanatory Dictionary

demy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
  2. One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
  3. Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Word forms

demy demies

Etymology

* (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.

Derived words

double demy junior demy music demy quad demy senior demy
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