Meaning
4 senses(transitive)Demesne.
(transitive)Resources; means.
(obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually)Management; treatment.
(obsolete, transitive, uncountable, usually)Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
поведінкаpovedinka
Examples
12 sentencesI didn't mean to demean you.
You don't have to be so demeaning.
Billy uses his language skills to demean and humiliate those who are learning English.
It really feels demeaning.
He was demeaning himself.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener,From Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre, from minārī (“to threaten”).
Variant of demesne.
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Forms
plural: demeans| Singular | demean |
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uncountable
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.