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UK
/pˈɒpjʊlɐ/
]
[ US /ˈpɑpjəɫɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑpjəɫɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public
cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular
a popular tourist attraction
a popular girl -
carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large
popular representation
institutions of popular government
the popular vote -
representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
popular thought
democratic art forms
popular fiction
popular science
a democratic or popular movement - (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
How To Use popular In A Sentence
- This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
- The popular beauty spot is home to a variety of wildlife including birds and types of bats.
- He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
- I myself ran a popular singles group for a couple of years once so I recognize the behaviour of which he speaks.
- I feel like the popular conception of Freddy Krueger might be a bit different than what you guys are going for here because Freddy Krueger, popularly, is Henie Youngman as a serial killer. Producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller On Set Interview A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET – Collider.com
- They talk and joke and sing snatches of popular songs.
- As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
- Some of the most popular pairings pitted contrasting advantages and disadvantages against one another.
- Family comedy sequel based on the popular book series. The Sun
- Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O\'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists.' Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
