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Workaday vs Demotic - What's the difference?

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Workaday is a related term of demotic.


As adjectives the difference between workaday and demotic

is that workaday is suitable for everyday use while demotic is of or for the common people.

As a noun demotic is

(linguistics) language as spoken or written by the common people.

workaday

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • suitable for everyday use
  • mundane or commonplace

    • Quotations

    * 1916 , (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), (James Joyce), Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 102: *:A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world."

    Related terms

    * workday

    References

    demotic

    English

    (wikipedia demotic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or for the common people.
  • *
  • Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
    • demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient Egypt.
  • Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
    • demotic Greek

    Synonyms

    * (of the vulgar form of hieratic writing) enchorial

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
  • * 2010 , , accents map
    • Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like .

    Derived terms

    * demotist