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populace |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Populace \Pop"u*lace\, n. [F. populace, fr It popolaccio popolazzo fr popolo people, L. populus. See {People}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: populace n : people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public" [syn: {public}, {world}]
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