popular

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Common among the general public

   Common among the general public; generally accepted.

   • Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written.
   • Recent evidence demonstrates that caffeine addiction is becoming popular worldwide.
2. 2

   Concerning the people

   Concerning the people; public.

3. 3

   Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.

   • Luther in popular memory had become a saint, his picture capable of saving houses from burning down, if it was fixed to the parlour wall.
   • Jonathan Freedland brilliantly articulates the size and nature of the challenge and we must take his lead in setting out a radical agenda for a new republic based on the principle of popular sovereignty.
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   1. 4

      Of low birth, not noble

      Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.

      • Popular and shallow-headed mindes, cannot perceive the grace or comelinesse, nor judge of a smooth and quaint discourse.
   2. 5

      Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.

      Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.

      • As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.
   3. 6

      Cultivating the favour of the common people.

      • Such popular humanity is treason.
   4. 7

      Liked by many people

      Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.

      • They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around.
   5. 8

      Adapted to the means of the common people

      Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.

   6. 9

      A person who is popular, especially at a school.

   7. 10

      An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.

      • Serious newspapers boomed; the populars became tabloid supplements to television, with the television schedules and related features increasingly the core of the newspaper.
   8. 11

      A member of the Populares

      • [...] when their ambassadors were come from Samos, and that they saw not only the populars, but also some others of their own party thought trusty before, to be now changed.
   9. 12

      A member of any political party with "Popular" in the title, such as the Partido Popular…

      A member of any political party with "Popular" in the title, such as the Partido Popular in Spain or Popolari di Italia Domani in Italy

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