demonstration

English Online Dictionary. What means demonstration‎? What does demonstration mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (“show or explain”), from de- (“of or concerning”) + monstrare (“show”). Morphologically demonstrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

demonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)

1. The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
   1. (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. An event at which something will be demonstrated.

3. Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
4. A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
5. A show of military force.
6. (mathematics, philosophy) A proof.
   • a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:

     He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

Synonyms

• (public display of opposition): protest, march; parade, manifestation (both dated)

Derived terms

Related terms

• demonstrable
• demonstrate
• demonstrator
• monster
• remonstration
• demo

Descendants

• → Dutch: demonstratie (semantic loan)
• → German: Demonstration (semantic loan)
• → Japanese: デモンストレーション (demonsutorēshon)

Translations

Anagrams

• nonmeditators

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdemʌnsdʁɑˈɕoˀn/

Noun

demonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)

1. demonstration

Declension

Further reading

• “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

demonstration c

1. a demonstration (act or event of showing or explaining something)
2. a demonstration (public display of group opinion, like a protest march)
3. a demonstration (display of (military) force)

Declension

Derived terms

• demonstrationståg

Related terms

• demonstrant
• demonstrera

References

• demonstration in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• demonstration in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)