popular
Forms
- Comparative
- more popular
- Superlative
- most popular
- Plural
- populars
Definitions
1.Common among the general public; generally accepted.
- Recent evidence demonstrates that caffeine addiction is becoming popular worldwide.
- Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written.
2.Concerning the people; public.
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.
4.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.
1.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.
2.A person who is popular, especially at a school.
3.A member of the Populares
4.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
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1065
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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Proto-Italic *poplos
Old Latin populus
Latin populus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin populārislbor.
Old French populairebor.
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Latin populārisbor.
Middle English populer
English popular