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  1. adjective Widely liked or appreciated: a popular resort.
  2. adjective Liked by acquaintances; sought after for company: "Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved” (Margaret Fuller).
  3. adjective Of, representing, or carried on by the people at large: the popular vote.
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  • He specializes in Japanese popular culture and writes regular columns for Metropolis magazine, and the Otaku2. com website. —  Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
  • And in the absence of other more accurate sources of information in American popular culture, it's hardly surprising if the viewing public believes it. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Well, I guess I'd still like to see any real connection between animal rights and moral relativism-i. e., something other than the fact that they're both associated with the political left in American popular imagination. —  The Editrix' Roncesvalles
  • One fixture in American popular culture that I never had the opportunity to partake in was. —  The Bilerico Project
  • After all, there's nothing in American popular culture that's as hopelessly square as this wheezy old soap opera. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Middle English populer, commonly known, from Old French populeir, of the people, from Latin populāris, from populus, the people, of Etruscan origin.

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  1. = Dutch populair = German popular, populär = Swedish populär = Danish populær = from French populaire = Spanish Portuguese popular = Italian populare, popolare, from Latin popularis, of the people, belonging to the people, of the same people or country (as a noun, a fellow-countryman), agreeable to the people, popular, attached or devoted to the people, democratic, etc., from populus, the people: see people.
 

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