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Meaning of demos | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈdeː.mɔs]

Definitions

  1. a tract of land, a demos, a deme
    declension-2
  2. accusative plural of dēmos
    accusative, form-of, plural
  3. the inhabitants of a dēmos: people, especially the common people
    declension-2

Examples

“pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter.”

In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ― translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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