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Webster 1913 Edition


Populace

Pop′u-lace

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Populace

POP'ULACE

,
Noun.
[L. populus. See People.] The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, education, office, profession or erudition.

Definition 2024


populace

populace

English

Noun

populace (countable and uncountable, plural populaces)

  1. The common people of a nation.
    • The populace despised their ignorant leader.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
      Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
  2. The inhabitants of a nation.

Usage notes

  • Do not confuse populace (a noun) with populous (an adjective).

Synonyms

Translations


Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

populace f

  1. population

Derived terms


French

Noun

populace f (plural populaces)

  1. populace, common people