demy

n. 一种印刷用纸, 拿津贴的学生

词形变化

demies 复数 demies

别名

demi

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.

    非正式 可数 不可数

    1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 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; […]

  3. 3.

    Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

    可数 不可数

相关短语

music demy

词源

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

来源：wiktionary