Demotic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to the common people; popular: demotic speech; demotic entertainments.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or written in the simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
  • adj. Of or relating to a form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
  • n. Demotic Greek.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or for the common people.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
  • n. Language as spoken by the common people.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Popular; pertaining to the common people: specifically applied to a certain mode of writing used in Egypt for epistolary and business purposes from about the seventh century b. c., as distinguished from the hieratic and hieroglyphic. Also called enchorial.
  • Pertaining to a people developed beyond the tribal stage and including individuals of various kindreds or nationalities.
  • Social.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
  • adj. of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use
  • n. the modern Greek vernacular
  • adj. of or for the common people
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    popular    common    enchorial   
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