Demy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪ

Full definition of demy

Noun

1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
2. (colloquial) A demyship.
• 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, , 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132,...by whose recommendations he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called scholars, young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships;....

Derived terms

• double demy
• music demy
• quad demy