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Popular

adjective

Regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public. "A popular girl" , "Cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular" Antonym: unpopular.

Carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large. "Popular representation" , "Institutions of popular government"

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"

(of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people). Synonym: pop.

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"Popular" Quotes from Famous Books

... to keep him to ordinary topics of talk so long as the man was in the room. But Lempriere had seen and heard enough to put him in good humour with his host. The intimacy of the latter with the Carterets, and a suspicion of general lukewarmness in the popular cause, had begotten old enmities, of which Lempriere, in the long probation of failure, exile, and poverty, had already learned to be ashamed; and to see the man he had misjudged, looking him eagerly and earnestly in the face as he uttered the language of a genuine ...

— St George's Cross • H. G. Keene

... popular mind was unusually depressed just then. The President's emancipatory proclamation had recently issued, and seemed to adapt itself, with wonderful elasticity, to the discontents of all parties; not comprehensive enough for the ultra-Abolitionists, it was stigmatized by the Democrats ...

— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence

... to the notary was not to be made till two in the afternoon, Brigitte began early in the morning of the next day what Thuillier called her rampage, a popular term which expresses that turbulent, nagging, irritating activity which La Fontaine has described so well in his fable of "The Old Woman and her Servants." Brigitte declared that if you didn't take time by the forelock no one would be ready. She prevented Thuillier from going ...

— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac

... of this mark of popular favour, the experience had been disheartening and its effect was disturbing. Although it is impossible to subscribe to the opinion of later writers, who, looking at the matter from a conservative and therefore unfavourable aspect, saw ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... Church, so that secular and religious advance is left more or less unhampered; whereas in Islam the hierarchico-political constitution has hopelessly welded the secular arm with the spiritual in one common scepter, to the furthering of despotism, and elimination of the popular voice from its proper place in the ...

— Two Old Faiths - Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans • J. Murray Mitchell and William Muir

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