Definition of popular

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Popular (a.) 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..

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Bean :: Bean (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans..
Grass :: Grass (n.) Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Ostracize :: Ostracize (v. t.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens..
Aristocracy :: Aristocracy (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect..
Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..
Popular :: Popular (a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.
Popularity :: Popularity (n.) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap..
Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation..
Referendum :: Referendum (n.) The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.
Caterpillar :: Caterpillar (n.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutw
Popularly :: Popularly (adv.) In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported..
Parody :: Parody (n.) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb..
Oval :: Oval (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse..
Turban-shell :: Turban-shell (n.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
Yankee-doodle :: Yankee-Doodle (n.) The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States.
Pillar :: Pillar (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament..
Popularizing :: Popularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Populariz.
Oyster :: Oyster (n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
Gentleman :: Gentleman (n.) A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc..
Romance :: Romance (n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages)..
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