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Popular   /pˈɑpjələr/   Listen
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Popular  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." "So the popular vote inclines." "The men commonly held in popular estimation are greatest at a distance."
2.
Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain. "Homilies are plain popular instructions."
3.
Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements. "The smallest figs, called popular figs,... are, of all others, the basest and of least account."
4.
Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
5.
Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace. (R.) "Such popular humanity is treason."
6.
Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease. (Obs.)
Popular action (Law), an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute.





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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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