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
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
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs
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
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
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
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson
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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