demy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches. countable,uncountable
  2. One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132, […] by whose recommendations he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called scholars, young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships; […]
  3. Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford. countable,uncountable
    — William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen

词形变化

demies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
double demy junior demy music demy quad demy senior demy

词源

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