Popular
['pɒpjʊlə] or ['pɑpjəlɚ]
Definition
(adj.) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) .
(adj.) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large; 'the popular vote'; 'popular representation'; 'institutions of popular government' .
(adj.) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; 'a popular tourist attraction'; 'a popular girl'; 'cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.
(a.) Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
(a.) Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.
(a.) Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
(a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.
(a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Plain, familiar, easy.[2]. Received (by the people), accepted, accredited, favorite, liked.[3]. Current, prevailing, prevalent, common, general, in vogue, in favor.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Common, current, vulgar, public, general, received, favorite, beloved,prevailing, approved, widespread, liked
ANT:Exclusive, restricted, scientific, esoteric, unpopular, odious, detested
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Definition
adj. pertaining to the people: pleasing to or prevailing among the people: enjoying the favour of the people: easily understood: inferior: (Shak.) vulgar.—n. Popularisā′tion.—v.t. Pop′ularise to make popular or suitable to the people: to spread among the people.—ns. Pop′ulariser; Popular′ity Pop′ularness quality or state of being popular or pleasing to the people: favour with the people: a desire to obtain favour with the people.—adv. Pop′ularly.—v.t. Pop′ulāte to people: to furnish with inhabitants.—v.i. to increase in numbers.—adj. populous.—n. Populā′tion act of populating: the number of the inhabitants of any place.—adj. Pop′ulous full of people: numerously inhabited: (Shak.) numerous.—adv. Pop′ulously.—n. Pop′ulousness.
Typist: Shelby
Examples
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By the time the officer arrived, Sam had made himself so extremely popular, that the congregated gentlemen determined to see him to prison in a body. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- There was great popular applause. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The popular poets got to work in this fashion: Thou king of satyrs . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The popular fear of engrossing and forestalling may be compared to the popular terrors and suspicions of witchcraft. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nor is he less in advance of popular opinion in his political and moral speculations. Plato. The Republic.
- He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate—and which some people really believed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was a pleasant business, and was very popular. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He's got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And in our own efforts to shape policies we do not seek out what is worth doing: we seek out what will pass for moral, practical, popular or constitutional. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They soon got beyond the first crude popular misconception of Darwinism, the idea that every man is for himself alone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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