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Popular   /pˈɑpjələr/   Listen
Popular

adjective
1.
Regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public.  "A popular girl" , "Cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"
2.
Carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large.  "Popular representation" , "Institutions of popular government"
3.
Representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large.  Synonym: democratic.  "A democratic or popular movement" , "Popular thought" , "Popular science" , "Popular fiction"
4.
(of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people).  Synonym: pop.



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"Popular" Quotes from Famous Books



... popular among the Indians, for whom he subsequently gave many years of successful, self-denying toil. His presence with us in our home was a great joy. None but those who have been deprived of the pleasure of the society and fellowship of kindred spirits can realise what a benediction this sweet-spirited ...
— By Canoe and Dog-Train • Egerton Ryerson Young
... much of interest to Indians and Europeans. The "house of wonders" is very popular with the former. It includes a very valuable collection of Buddhist sculptures. Opposite the museum is the famous Zamzama gun ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie
... prevented the signature of the Versailles Treaty and assisted the merchants to enforce the Japanese boycott, the students then directed their energies to the enlightenment of their less educated brothers and sisters. For instance, by issuing publications, by popular lectures showing them the real situation, internally as well as externally; but especially by establishing free schools and maintaining them out of their own funds. No praise can be too high for such self-sacrifice, for the students generally ...
— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell
... nation necessarily divides itself into diction scholastick and popular, grave and familiar, elegant and gross: and from a nice distinction of these different parts arises a great part of the beauty of style. But if we except a few minds, the favourites of nature, to whom their own original rectitude was in the place of rules, this delicacy of selection ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... priests, and deacons—constituted, in popular belief, the divinely ordained administration of the Catholic Church. The legislative authority in the Church similarly was vested in the pope and in the general councils, neither of which, however, could set aside a law of God, as affirmed ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes


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