populace
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒpjʊləs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: päpʹyə-ləs, IPA(key): /ˈpɑpjələs/ IPA(key): /ˈpɑpjulɛs/
- Homophone: populous
Noun
[edit]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[1]:
- 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 nation.
- 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
[edit]- Do not confuse populace (a noun) with populous (an adjective).
- The Latin word populus, which means nearly the same thing, is sometimes erroneously used for populace in English writing.
Synonyms
[edit]- (common people of a nation): common people, hoi polloi, masses, people, rabble, riff-raff
- (inhabitants of a nation): inhabitants, population
Translations
[edit]common people
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inhabitants of a nation — see population
References
[edit]- “populace”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]populace f (related adjective populační)
Declension
[edit]Declension of populace (soft feminine)
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | populace | populace |
genitive | populace | populací |
dative | populaci | populacím |
accusative | populaci | populace |
vocative | populace | populace |
locative | populaci | populacích |
instrumental | populací | populacemi |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian popolazzo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]populace f (plural populaces)
- (derogatory) populace, common people
- Synonym: plèbe
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “populace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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