demos
noun/ˈdiːmɒs/UK/ˈdiˌmɑs/US
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”). Doublet of deme.
Definitions
An ancient subdivision of Attica
An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.
The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state
The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.
- When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.
plural of demo
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third-person singular simple present indicative of demo
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for demos. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA