Definitions for deme

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Spelling: [deem]
IPA: /dim/

Deme is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in deme (deem).

Definitions for deme

noun

  1. one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.
  2. Biology. a local population of organisms of the same kind, especially one in which the genetic mix is similar throughout the group.

Origin of deme

First recorded in 1620-30, deme is from the Greek word dêmos a district, the people, commons

Examples for deme

Polemon, deme Stiria, tribe Pandionis; will that do for you?

Or ellis how moche is wore e diuyne prescience more an e oppinioun of mankynde yif so be at it deme e inges vncerteyne as men don.

In Attica, too, was a local community, the deme—thus Thucydides was a Halimusian by deme.

To try to insert an alien child in a deme was a civil, in a was a religious offence.

But the government of the ward did not possess the solid attributes of that of the Attic deme.

Ne I ne may nat for swiche honours Iugen hem wori of reuerence at I deme and holde vnwori to han ilke same honours.

Aristophanes was an Athenian citizen of the tribe Pandionis, and the deme Cydathene.

To be a citizen of the state it was necessary to be a citizen of a deme.

But we do no violence to the construction if we say that means "going (forth) to my deme."

The person voted and was taxed in his deme, and he was called into the military service from his deme.

Word Value for deme
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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