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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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"Popular" Quotes from Famous Books



... prerogative of the German race. Russians, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Americans, undoubtedly, make as good fighters as Germans. But it is not an exaggeration to say that there is no country in the world where the army is as enlightened or as popular an institution as it ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... mode of atoning for the error in doing the man injustice, by supposing he was mistaken about the new sail, and Jack Brown went aloft devoted to the commander-in-chief. It costs the great and powerful so little to become popular, that one is sometimes surprised to find that any are otherwise; but, when we remember that it is also their duty to be just, astonishment ceases; justice being precisely the quality to which a large portion of the ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... great length on this subject, partly because some recent popular tracts of Canon Rawlinson, Mr. R.S. Pattison, and others, have already made the ordinary reader familiar with the main outlines of the subject; and still more because, be the views of archaeologists what they ...
— Creation and Its Records • B.H. Baden-Powell
... and Latin American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the US; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key concerns; heroin increasingly popular in ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... the learned William Fulke, D.D. attacked some inconsistent, though popular, opinions, in a small Latin tract called "Antiprognosticon contra invtiles astrologorvm praedictiones Nostrodami, &c." and at the back of the title are Verses,[36] by friends of the author, the first being entitled ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter


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