populist

See also: Populist

English

Etymology

From Latin populus +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒp.jʊ.lɪst/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.pjə.lɪst/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔp.jʉ.lɪst/

Noun

populist (plural populists)

1. A person who advocates populism (a movement against ruling elites who are presumed not to act in the interests of the ordinary citizen).
   • 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.

2. A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
3. A person who advocates democratic principles.

Translations

person who advocates populism

• Armenian: պոպուլիստ (populist)
• Chinese:

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• Czech: populista m
• Danish: populist c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: populisti (fi)
• Galician: populista m or f
• German: Populist (de) m
• Hungarian: populista (hu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: plebicola m
• Spanish: populista m or f

politician who advocates policies just because they are popular

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պոպուլիստ (populist)
• Belarusian: папулі́ст m (papulíst), папулі́стка f (papulístka)
• Chinese:

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• Czech: populista m
• Danish: populist c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: populisti (fi)
• French: populiste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Populist (de) m, Populistin (de) f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: populista (hu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: populista (pl) m, populistka (pl) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: попули́ст (ru) m (populíst), попули́стка f (populístka)
• Slovak: populista m
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: популі́ст m (populíst), популі́стка f (populístka)

person who advocates democratic principles

• Czech: demokrat (cs) m
• Finnish: demokraatti (fi)
• Russian: наро́дник (ru) m (naródnik), наро́дница (ru) f (naródnica)
• Ukrainian: народо́вець m (narodóvecʹ), наро́дник m (naródnyk), наро́дниця f (naródnycja)

Adjective

populist (comparative more populist, superlative most populist)

1. Democratic.
2. (of a political policy) Put forward just because it would be popular.
3. Of or pertaining to populism.

Synonyms

• populistic

Translations

democratic

• Finnish: demokraattinen (fi)
• Hindi: जनवादी (janvādī)
• Russian: наро́днический (ru) (naródničeskij)

put forward just because it would be popular

• Belarusian: папулі́сцкі (papulíscki)
• Czech: populistický
• Finnish: populistinen (fi)
• French: populiste (fr)
• German: populistisch (de)
• Hungarian: populista (hu)
• Russian: попули́стский (ru) (populístskij)
• Ukrainian: популі́стський (populístsʹkyj)

of or pertaining to populism

• Belarusian: папулі́сцкі (papulíscki)
• Finnish: populistinen (fi)
• German: populistisch (de)
• Hungarian: populista (hu)
• Russian: попули́стский (ru) (populístskij), наро́днический (ru) (naródničeskij) (democratic)
• Thai: ประชานิยม (bprà-chaa-ní-yom)
• Ukrainian: популі́стський (populístsʹkyj)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpoːpyˈlɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: po‧pu‧list

Noun

populist n (plural populisten, diminutive populistje n)

1. populist (advocate or supporter of political populism, asserting that elites are out of touch with the common people)
2. (derogatory) demagogue

Derived terms

• populistisch

Related terms

• populisme

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French populiste. By surface analysis, popul +‎ -ist.

Adjective

populist m or n (feminine singular populistă, masculine plural populiști, feminine and neuter plural populiste)

1. populist

Declension

Declension of populist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	populist		populistă	populiști	populiste
	definite	populistul		populista	populiștii	populistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	populist		populiste	populiști	populiste
	definite	populistului		populistei	populiștilor	populistelor

Noun

populist m (plural populiști)

1. populist

Declension

Declension of populist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) populist	populistul	(niște) populiști	populiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) populist	populistului	(unor) populiști	populiștilor
vocative	populistule		populiștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• populista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /popǔlist/
• Hyphenation: po‧pu‧list

Noun

popùlist m (Cyrillic spelling попу̀лист)

1. (Croatia) populist

Declension

Declension of populist

	singular	plural
nominative	populist	populisti
genitive	populista	populista
dative	populistu	populistima
accusative	populista	populiste
vocative	populiste	populisti
locative	populistu	populistima
instrumental	populistom	populistima