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populace
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English
Etymology
From Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio. Compare demotic.
Pronunciation
Noun
populace (countable and uncountable, plural populaces)
- 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.
- The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
- Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.
Usage notes
Synonyms
- (common people of a nation): common people, hoi polloi, masses, people, rabble, riff-raff
- (inhabitants of a nation): inhabitants, population
Translations
common people
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inhabitants of a nation — see population
References
- “populace”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
populace f (relational adjective populační)
Declension
Declension of populace (soft feminine)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “populace”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “populace”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “populace”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
populace f (plural populaces)
- (derogatory) populace, common people
- Synonym: plèbe
Related terms
Further reading
- “populace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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