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POPULACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does populace mean?
• POPULACE (noun)
The noun POPULACE has 1 sense:
1. people in general considered as a whole
Familiarity information: POPULACE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People in general considered as a whole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Context example:
he is a hero in the eyes of the public
Hypernyms ("populace" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "populace"):
audience (the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "populace"):
admass (the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British))
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