popular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *poplos
Old Latin populus
Latin populus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin populārislbor.
Old French populairebor.
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Latin populārisbor.
Middle English populer
English popular
Inherited from Middle English populer, borrowed from Old French populaire, or borrowed from Latin populāris.
Inflected forms:
form: more popular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most popular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: populars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Common among the general public; generally accepted.
pos: adj
examples: Contrary to popular misconception, MacArthur Park is not the worst song ever written.
Recent evidence demonstrates that caffeine addiction is becoming popular worldwide.
gloss: Concerning the people; public.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.
pos: adj
examples: At the coming of Calvin thither, the form of their civil regiment was popular, as it continueth at this day: neither king, nor duke, nor nobleman of any authority or power over them, but officers chosen by the people out of themselves, to order all things with public consent.
Luther in popular memory had become a saint, his picture capable of saving houses from burning down, if it was fixed to the parlour wall.
Jonathan Freedland brilliantly articulates the size and nature of the challenge and we must take his lead in setting out a radical agenda for a new republic based on the principle of popular sovereignty.
gloss: Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Popular and shallow-headed mindes, cannot perceive the grace or comelinesse, nor judge of a smooth and quaint discourse.
gloss: Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.
pos: adj
examples: As a work of popular science it is exemplary: the focus may be the numbers, but most of the mathematical legwork is confined to the appendices and the accompanying commentary is amusing and witty, as well as informed.
gloss: Cultivating the favour of the common people.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Such popular humanity is treason.
gloss: Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
pos: adj
examples: The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around.
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.
gloss: Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is popular, especially at a school.
pos: noun
examples: To pass time, Nicole (Tammy Lynn Michaels), the most vicious of the populars, decides they should play a little game. Earlier that day, in their feminist studies class, the women were discussing Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a novel ...
gloss: An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Serious newspapers boomed; the populars became tabloid supplements to television, with the television schedules and related features increasingly the core of the newspaper.
gloss: A member of the Populares
pos: noun
examples: [...] when their ambassadors were come from Samos, and that they saw not only the populars, but also some others of their own party thought trusty before, to be now changed.
Antonyms: anonymous
unpopular
Derived words: antipopular
contrary to popular belief
extrapopular
hyperpopular
impopular
megapopular
nonpopular
overpopular
pop
pop art
popufur
popular action
popular assembly
popular beat combo
popular culture
popular democracy
popular etymology
popular front
popular initiative
popularisation
popularise
popularism
popularist
popularity
popularization
popularize
popularly
popular music
popularness
popular opinion
popular psychology
popular science
popular vote
pseudopopular
semipopular
superpopular
überpopular
ultrapopular
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شَعْبِيّ
roman: šaʕbiyy
lang: Armenian
word: ժողովրդական
roman: žoġovrdakan
lang: Basque
word: herrikoi
lang: Belarusian
word: наро́дны
roman: naródny
lang: Bulgarian
word: наро́ден
roman: naróden
lang: Catalan
word: popular
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 人民
roman: rénmín
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 民
roman: mín
lang: Czech
word: lidový
lang: Danish
word: folkelig
lang: Danish
word: populær-
lang: Dutch
word: volks-
lang: Dutch
word: volks
lang: Esperanto
word: popola
lang: Finnish
word: kansan-
lang: Finnish
word: kansanomainen
lang: French
word: populaire
lang: Galician
word: popular
lang: Georgian
word: სახალხო
roman: saxalxo
lang: German
word: Volks-
lang: Greek
word: λαϊκός
roman: laïkós
lang: Hindi
word: लोकप्रसिद्ध
roman: lokaprasiddh
lang: Hungarian
word: köz-
lang: Hungarian
word: közkeletű
lang: Hungarian
word: tömeg-
lang: Hungarian
word: tömeges
lang: Hungarian
word: nép-
lang: Hungarian
word: népi
lang: Indonesian
word: populer
lang: Irish
word: coiteann
lang: Italian
word: popolare
lang: Ladin
word: populer
lang: Latin
word: popularis
lang: Macedonian
word: народен
roman: naroden
lang: Māori
word: o te marea
lang: Māori
word: a te marea
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: folkelig
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: folkeleg
lang: Occitan
word: popular
lang: Old English
word: folclīċ
lang: Persian
word: رایج
roman: râyej
lang: Persian
word: متداول
roman: motedâvel
lang: Polish
word: powszechny
lang: Polish
word: ludowy
lang: Portuguese
word: popular
lang: Romanian
word: popular
lang: Russian
word: наро́дный
roman: naródnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: на́роднӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: národnī
lang: Slovak
word: ľudový
lang: Slovene
word: ljudski
lang: Spanish
word: popular
lang: Swahili
word: maarufu
lang: Swedish
word: folklig
lang: Swedish
word: populär
lang: Telugu
word: ప్రజా
roman: prajā
lang: Ukrainian
word: наро́дний
roman: naródnyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhân dân
lang: Vietnamese
word: bình nhân