populace
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/
- 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).
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
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
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.