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Dictionary definition for: Popular
1. (a) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction" "a popular girl" "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"
2. (s) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large; "the popular vote" "popular representation" "institutions of popular government"
3. (s) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms" "a democratic or popular movement" "popular thought" "popular science" "popular fiction"
4. (s) comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"
5. (s) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
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