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–noun

1.	the common people of a community, nation, etc., as distinguished from the higher classes.

2.	all the inhabitants of a place; population.

[Origin: 1565–75; < F < It popolaccio, equiv. to popol(o) people + -accio pejorative suffix

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n.

The general public; the masses.
A population.

[French, from Italian popolaccio, rabble, from popolo, the people, from Latin populus; see popular.]

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populace

1572, from M.Fr. populace, from It. popolaccio "riffraff, rabble," from popolo "people" (from L. populus "people") + pejorative suffix -accio.

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populace
noun
people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

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populace [ˈpopjuləs] noun

the people (of a country etc)

Arabic:	عامَّة الناس او الجُمْهور
Chinese (Simplified):	平民
Chinese (Traditional):	平民
Czech:	obyvatelstvo
Danish:	befolkning
Dutch:	bevolking
Estonian:	lihtrahvas
Finnish:	kansa
French:	peuple
German:	das Volk
Greek:	πληθυσμός, λαός
Hungarian:	a lakosság
Icelandic:	almúgi
Indonesian:	rakyat
Italian:	popolino, plebe

Japanese:	大衆
Korean:	민중
Latvian:	iedzīvotāji; ļaudis
Lithuanian:	gyventojai
Norwegian:	befolkning, almue
Polish:	lud
Portuguese (Brazil):	populaça
Portuguese (Portugal):	população
Romanian:	populaţie
Russian:	население
Slovak:	obyvateľstvo
Slovenian:	ljudstvo
Spanish:	pueblo
Swedish:	befolkning, populas
Turkish:	nüfus

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Populace

Pop"u*lace\, n. [F. populace, fr. It. popolaccio, popolazzo, fr. popolo people, L. populus. See People.] The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. --Pope.

To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. --Daniel.

They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. --Tennyson.

Syn: Mob; people; commonalty.

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