| 词汇 | demotic |
| 释义 | demotic adjective formaluk /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/ us /dɪˈmɑː.t̬ɪk/ language specialized in or relating to a form of language used by ordinary people, that includes informal expressions and slang: （语言）通俗的，大众化的 He has made poetry out of demotic speech. She addressed us in demotic French. We are writing for a very diverse population, so our language must be more demotic. relating to or used, made, enjoyed, etc. by ordinary people: The demotic pieces of art enjoyed by the majority were dismissed as formally simplistic or sentimental. Travelling by train in India is still a genuinely demotic experience. His athletically hybrid style of dance was demotic but classy. Synonym popular language, history specialized(alsoDemotic) describing or relating to a simple form of ancient Egyptian writing used from about 650 BCE to the 5th century CE, when it was replaced by Coptic, which uses a form of the Greek alphabet: Copies of the text of the decree have survived written in ancient Egyptian, in both hieroglyphic and demotic scripts. Fragments of papyrus were found containing Demotic Egyptian text. Compare hieratic hieroglyphic language, history specialized(alsoDemotic) describing or relating to the modern form of Greek that is used in ordinary speech and writing: As Education Minister, he formally established demotic Greek as the language of the land. His work moves from the Hellenistic golden age through to today's Demotic Greek, the language of the people. When writing for a general audience he would adopt a more straightforward, demotic style. The writer has an extraordinary ear for the demotic English of working-class women. The new edition of the dictionary had increased coverage of demotic slang. Even in this demotic age we want our leaders to be in some way extraordinary. Forms of languages & specialist dialects acrolect argot basilect cant colloquialism jargon jargonistic journalese legalese lingo lingua franca patois pidgin pidginization pidginize plain English psychobabble shibboleth vernacular vernacularly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Ordinary people Lettering & alphabets Ancient history: before 500 AD demotic noun uk /dɪˈmɒt.ɪk/ us /dɪˈmɑː.t̬ɪk/ [ S or U ] a form of a language used by ordinary people, that includes informal expressions and slang: Unlike many politicians, he is not afraid of the colloquial and the demotic. She is more qualified than most English directors to tackle the subtleties of the Scots demotic. The language is an odd mixture of Victorian English and early 21st-century demotic. [ U ] language, history specialized(alsoDemotic) a simple form of ancient Egyptian writing used from about 650 BCE to the 5th century CE, when it was replaced by Coptic, which uses the Greek alphabet: Some of these letter forms derive from Demotic and others from Coptic. Names written in demotic may be those of the workmen, and markings they left show us how they cut the obelisks. Compare hieratic hieroglyphics [ U ] language, history specialized(alsoDemotic) the modern form of Greek that is used in ordinary speech and writing: I wrote a blogpost on Demotic in the Soviet Union, about the two major groups of ethnic Greeks that lived in the USSR. The whole book is written in a perfectly acceptable, intelligent demotic. The poem's self-conscious demotic seems dated now. He believes that the novel has renewed itself by turning away from modernist elitism and rediscovering the pleasures of humour, storytelling, and the demotic. He ruminated over the Rosetta Stone, suspecting it displayed parallel texts in Greek characters, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Demotic, a cursive version of Egyptian. Forms of languages & specialist dialects acrolect argot basilect cant colloquialism jargon jargonistic journalese legalese lingo lingua franca patois pidgin pidginization pidginize plain English psychobabble shibboleth vernacular vernacularly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Ordinary people Lettering & alphabets Ancient history: before 500 AD Of these demotic fragments a large quantity had been sent to the British Museum. These papers were in two languages-Greek and demotic, or the popular language of the Egyptians. Examples of demoticdemotic The main plank of these reforms was to legitimise and to introduce the demotic language into schools. Yet each is corrupted in its overt demotic message by one or more conventions borrowed from the romance tradition of fiction. It is certainly a demotic usage but equally certainly not new. Dealing with a demotic tongue, it appears in a reasonably demotic format. In this context, the baths can be interpreted as part of an emerging demotic orientalism associated with an increasingly commercialized leisure world. By examining the ministry of ordinary clergymen in rural parishes, a more demotic and responsive church almost irresistibly emerges. Another example is the contrast between elite games and the demotic games of chance, the latter representing the goal of personal gain and the former the reproduction of (aristocratic) values. While they overlapped with the ideas of elite radicalism they were more demotic in origin and formulation and acted as an ideological bridge between the educated minority and the masses. These visual statements propelled the idea of evolution out of the arcane realms of learned societies into the ordinary world of humor, newspapers, and demotic literature. Or could there be both, in a continuum from the consistent (and elitist) through the inconsistent (and demotic), to the 'illiterate', 'broken', and 'fractured'? On the contrary, it has long been a city engulfed in writing, as well as in a swirl of demotic myths, transmitted in written as well as oral form. The actress is thus literally owned by her immediate public, but owned also by a vast demotic consumership whom she might never encounter in the theatre. The result was the first extensive body of literature written in the demotic dialect, a move whose influence on subsequent writers can not be overstated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some of the hieratic copies contain demotic notations, but no purely demotic form of the text has been found. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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