[ UK /pˈɒpjʊlɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑpjəɫɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large
    popular representation
    institutions of popular government
    the popular vote
  3. 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
  4. (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
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How To Use popular In A Sentence

  • The popular beauty spot is home to a variety of wildlife including birds and types of bats.
  • 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
  • This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
  • In some parts, the infection is popularly known as "pinkeye" because it turns the whites of the eyes pink. Dealing with Conjunctivitis
  • Some of the most popular pairings pitted contrasting advantages and disadvantages against one another.
  • The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
  • The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
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