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Popular   /pˈɑpjələr/   Listen
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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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... sir," said Mr. Kenge, showing us through the outer office to the door, "still bent, even with your enlarged mind, on echoing a popular prejudice? We are a prosperous community, Mr. Jarndyce, a very prosperous community. We are a great country, Mr. Jarndyce, we are a very great country. This is a great system, Mr. Jarndyce, and would you wish a great country to have a little ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... hybrid of the orange and lemon), the juice is sweet. The sour lemon is highly valued for its antiscorbutic properties, and is largely employed as a flavoring ingredient in culinary preparations, and in making a popular refreshing beverage. ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... wide suffrage, for the abolition of legal cruelties in the penal code, and for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberties. They have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it. The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... people's habit of thought, he reflected. Even the Courier followed the popular whim by miles and led it only by inches. So it seemed, at least. And yet if one should try to make his scheme a public one and leave ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... propose to say very much, because Brussels, although the brightest and gayest town in Belgium, and although retaining in its Grande Place, and in the buildings that immediately surround this last, as well as in its great church of St. Gudule (which, in spite of popular usage, is not, and never was, in the proper sense a cathedral), relics of antiquity of the very highest value and interest, yet Brussels, as a whole, is so distinctively a modern, and even cosmopolitan city, and has so much general resemblance to Paris (though its ...
— Beautiful Europe - Belgium • Joseph E. Morris


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