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demy

The English word “demy” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
  2. One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
  3. Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Etymology

* (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.

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