Definition of "demi" []

• Alternative spelling of demy. (noun)
• A fifty pence piece. (noun)
• A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters of fluid, 1/2 the volume of a standard bottle; a split. (noun)

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• "(selena is wearing outfit 22 demi is wearing #18) demi - * laughs, parks the car and gets out* come on! selena - gets out and walks with demi* this is fun demi - * laughs* i know * they walk into the school, all eyes on them*???"
• "On this occasion, too, he climbed up the stairs of the Capitol on his knees, without noticing at all either the chariot which he had dedicated to Jupiter, or the image of the inhabited world lying beneath his feet, or the inscription upon it: later on, however, he erased from that inscription the name demi-god."
• "It seems that the fashion so long prevalent of ladies going out at this hour in demi-toilet is passing away, bonnets and close dresses being now in vogue; but many still hold to the old fashion, and the effect is rather pretty as they promenade under the great avenues or flash past in carriages in the gathering dusk."