popular: [15] Popular is one of a range of English words that go back to Latin populus ‘people’. Besides people (which came via Old French) and popular itself, these include populace [16], population [16], and public. It is not clear where populus itself came from, although some have linked it with the Indo- European base *plē- ‘fill’, source of English full and Greek pléthos ‘multitude, common people’ (a relative of English plethora). => people, population, public
popular (adj.)
early 15c., "public," from Middle French populier (Modern French populaire) and directly from Latin popularis "belonging to the people, general, common; devoted to or accepted by the people; democratic," from populus "people" (see people (n.)).
Meaning "suited to ordinary people" is from 1570s in English; hence, of prices, "low, affordable to average persons" (1859). Meaning "well-liked, admired by the people" is attested from c. 1600. Of art, entertainment, etc., "favored by people generally" from 1819 (popular song). Related: Popularly. Popular Front "coalition of Communists, Socialists, and radicals" is from 1936, first in a French context.
雙語例句
1. The military government has been unable to win popular support.
軍政府一直未能贏得廣泛的支持。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The fusty old establishment refused to recognise the demand for popular music.
這一古板的老舊機(jī)構(gòu)拒絕承認(rèn)人們對(duì)流行音樂的需求。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Some of the finer type-faces are corrupted by cheap, popular computer printers.