bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - POPULACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces.

Additional info about word: POPULACE

The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson. Syn. -- Mob; people; commonalty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POPULACE)

Related words: (words related to POPULACE)

  • PEOPLE
    1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • TRIBE
    A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
  • NATIONALNESS
    The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.
  • VULGARIZATION
    The act or process of making vulgar, or common.
  • COMMUNITY
    1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests,
  • VULGARIAN
    A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
  • NATIONALIZE
    To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
  • VULGARISM
    1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
  • VULGARLY
    In a vulgar manner.
  • VULGARIZE
    To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.
  • PEOPLED
    Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
  • NATIONALLY
    In a national manner or way; as a nation. "The jews ... being nationally espoused to God by covenant." South.
  • PEOPLE'S PARTY
    A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
  • NATIONALITY
    1. The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism. 2. The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character. 3. A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by
  • NATIONALRATH
    See LEGISLATURE
  • PEOPLER
    A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
  • NATIONAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc. 2. Attached to one's own country or nation. National anthem, a popular song or hymn which has
  • COMMONALTY
    1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the
  • VULGAR
    1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.
  • INDIGNATION
    1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
  • CEPHALOTRIBE
    An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
  • RESIGNATION
    1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
  • ELIMINATION
    the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. (more info) 1. The act of expelling or throwing off;
  • DECLINATION
    The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
  • CALCINATION
    The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order
  • PROSTERNATION
    Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
  • INTERNATIONAL
    1. Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations. 2. Of or concerning the association called the International. International code
  • INGANNATION
    Cheat; deception. Sir T. Brown.
  • ORDINATION
    The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
  • ALTERNATION
    Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
  • INDOCTRINATION
    The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. Sir T. Browne.
  • RATIOCINATION
    The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
  • CONDONATION
    Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act
  • ADORNATION
    Adornment.
  • LUNATION
    The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29
  • VERMINATION
    1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels.
  • ASSASSINATION
    The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
  • LUMINATION
    Illumination.

Trending!

 

Back to top