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Webster 1913 Edition

(dēm)

Noun.

[Gr.

δῆμος

(Gr. Antiq.)

A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.

Jowett (Thucyd.).

(Biol.)

An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.

See also: deme, déme, dėme, and dėmė

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