Demes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 56 anagrams from letters in demes (deems).
First recorded in 1620-30, deme is from the Greek word dêmos a district, the people, commons
Aristophanes was an Athenian citizen of the tribe Pandionis, and the deme Cydathene.
The person voted and was taxed in his deme, and he was called into the military service from his 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.
But the government of the ward did not possess the solid attributes of that of the Attic deme.
To be a citizen of the state it was necessary to be a citizen of a deme.
To try to insert an alien child in a deme was a civil, in a was a religious offence.
Polemon, deme Stiria, tribe Pandionis; will that do for you?
In Attica, too, was a local community, the deme—thus Thucydides was a Halimusian by deme.
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.
But we do no violence to the construction if we say that means "going (forth) to my deme."