Definition of Popular

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Popular

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.

Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.

Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.

Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.

Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.

Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.

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Popular Quotations

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers

Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
Donald Trump

Popular Translations

popular in Dutch is populair, getapt, veelgeliefd
popular in French is populaire
popular in Italian is popolare, ben voluto
popular in Latin is celebrer
popular in Spanish is popular, bienquisto

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