popular
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- adjective
- /ˈpɑːpjələr/
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popular
- Now, contrary to popular belief, politics is no place to express yourself.
- popular education
- popular front
- popular protests
Like, when's the last time we fought a popular war, right?
- Like, when's the last time we fought a popular war, right?
- Kids are mean and contrary to popular belief, they're still mean.
- And you know that and that was not a popular decision.
- It violates a few kind of popular thoughts about nutrition, but that's what I do.
- Sir, we agreed on a safe word it's you lost the popular votes.
- And even more telling than that, he lost the popular vote.
- And when we presented this in London, the popular press sort of kind of uniformly said Yuck.
Examples
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Unless a greater effort is made by the government, to win popular support, I don't think that the war can be won out there.
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I've taken some stands on issues lately that haven't been too popular with the administration.
Fiction book (1995) -
Children were raised in communities, without the nuclear family structure that is so popular here.
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Now we're going to talk about doing philosophy in a public, popular, practical manner.
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The winner would be determined by popular vote, not my personal preference.
Fiction book (1998) -
Across the smaller states of Germany, rulers face popular demands for reform.
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By 1910, the Home Rule movement has achieved widespread popular support in Ireland.
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Anne, because of her looks and audacious charm, was the most popular girl in the hospital school.
Fiction book (2000) -
Morale is extremely low, in part, I suppose, because Sam is the least popular Scout in the troop.
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The festival was a popular event, attracting thousands of visitors from all over the region.
Synonyms
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A way of getting support from ordinary people by using simple emotional ideas against leaders
A statement or action that tries to win support from many people
Antonyms
Compounds
A Palestinian left-wing group that carries out armed attacks against Israel
The official name of Algeria, a country in North Africa
A Chilean armed group formed in the 1980s that used violence to fight the military government
A Palestinian political group formed in 1967 that carried out armed attacks against Israel
A Palestinian group that supports left-wing revolution and uses political and armed action
A Palestinian political group that uses armed attacks for its goals
A Palestinian armed group that split from al-Fatah in 1967 and attacked Israel
How Representative
Surface Forms
Morphology
popular = people (semi-transparent) = popul + ar
Meaning 'of or relating to the people' aligns with 'people', but the morphological elements come from Latin and may not be obvious to learners.
Etymology
Popular comes from the Latin populus, meaning 'people', and is the source of words like population and populace. So a popular government or movement is one that comes from or speaks for the people, not just a small group.