popular
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yə adjective
1.
regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
2.
regarded with favor, approval, or affection by an acquaintance or acquaintances: He's not very popular with me just now.
3.
of, pertaining to, or representing the people, especially the common people: popular discontent.
4.
of the people as a whole, especially of all citizens of a nation or state qualified to participate in an election: popular suffrage; the popular vote; popular representation.
5.
prevailing among the people generally: a popular superstition.
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World English Dictionary
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| —adj | |
| 1. | appealing to the general public; widely favoured or admired |
| 2. | favoured by an individual or limited group: I'm not very popular with her |
| 3. | connected with, representing, or prevailing among the general public; common: popular discontent |
| 4. | appealing to or comprehensible to the layman: a popular lecture on physics |
| —n | |
| 5. | (usually plural) Also shortened to: pops cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press |
| [C15: from Latin populāris belonging to the people, democratic, from populus people] | |
| popularity | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
popular
1490, "public," from L. popularis "belonging to the people," from populus "people." Meaning "well-liked, admired by the people" is attested from 1608. Popularity "fact or condition of being beloved by the people" is first recorded 1601; popularity contest is from 1941. Popular Front "coalition of Communists,
Socialists, and radicals" is from 1936. Popularize "to make a complex topic intelligible to the people" is from 1833.
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Example sentences
Relish these popular vegetables in all their colors, sizes, and shapes.
These trenchant observations, in a book which at once became popular, must have gone to swell the rising puritan opposition.
Touch-screen technology has become wildly popular, thanks to smart phones designed for nimble fingers.
One is the popular image that was at one time formed of him in this country.
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