Usually means: Popular, colloquial form of language.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word demotic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. demotic: Merriam-Webster
  2. demotic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demotic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demotic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Demotic, demotic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demotic, demotic: Wordnik
  7. demotic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Demotic, demotic: Wiktionary
  9. demotic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demotic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demotic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Demotic, demotic: Dictionary.com
  13. demotic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Demotic (Egyptian), Demotic (disambiguation), Demotic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Demotic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. demotic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Demotic: Rhymezone
  18. Demotic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. demotic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. demotic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. demotic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. demotic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. demotic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Demotic (Egyptian), Demotic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Demotic (disambiguation), demotic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demotic: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See demotics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or for the common people.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
noun:  (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
noun:  The demotic Egyptian script, used from c. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
noun:  (linguistics) The demotic Egyptian language, spoken from c. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.

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