Demotic

Quick meaning: Demotic is an adjective meaning Of or for the common people.

Meaning

Of or for the common people.

More Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
2. (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
3. Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.

Example Sentences

demotic Greek

demotic writing style

Near-synonym: vernacular

2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

Word Forms

• demotics

Synonyms for demotic

Depending on context, synonyms include colloquial, informal, popular, vernacular, enchorial, common.

Antonyms for demotic

Common opposites include formal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include common, folk, multitudinous, popular, vernacular, vulgar.

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