| query | P______ ideas, feelings, or attitudes are approved of or held by most people.Popular ideas, feelings, or attitudes are approved of or held by most people. Contrary to popular belief, the oil companies can't control the price of crude. The military government has been unable to win popular support. Popular anger has been expressed in demonstrations. Over time, though, Watson's views gained in popularity. |
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| word | popular |
| full-definition | adjective Something that is popular is enjoyed or liked by a lot of people. This is the most popular ball game ever devised. Chocolate sauce is always popular with youngsters. ...the growing popularity of coconut oil. Walking and golf increased in popularity during the 1980s. Someone who is popular is liked by most people, or by most people in a particular group. He remained the most popular politician in France. He was not only talented but immensely popular with his colleagues. It is his popularity with ordinary people that sets him apart. Popular newspapers, television programmes, or forms of art are aimed at ordinary people and not at experts or intellectuals . Once again the popular press in Britain has been rife with stories about their marriage. ...one of the classics of modern popular music. ...the popular culture of his native Mexico. Popular ideas, feelings, or attitudes are approved of or held by most people. Contrary to popular belief, the oil companies can't control the price of crude. The military government has been unable to win popular support. Popular anger has been expressed in demonstrations. Over time, though, Watson's views gained in popularity. Popular is used to describe political activities which involve the ordinary people of a country, and not just members of political parties. The late President Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. |
| inflections | popularitypopularitypopularity |
| cefr-level | A1 |
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