Populace

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:08:04

Pop"u*lace (?), n. [F. populace, fr. It. popolaccio, popolazzo, fr. popolo people, L. populus. See People.]

The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

Pope.

To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel.

They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

Syn. -- Mob; people; commonalty.

Populous	Treaty of Nice	Scotland	people
Suburban Knight	Lessons learned from World War II	Ba Xian	predilection
paraphilia	Identity	The One True Meme	Populus
Demonym	John Proctor	Bacon's Rebellion	Premcand
Corporate sponsorship	Fashionably late	Industrial Revolution in Scotland	Tall poppy syndrome
magic carpet	Luke 22	voracious	Disinterest

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