POPULARLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does popularly mean? 

• POPULARLY (adverb)
  The adverb POPULARLY has 1 sense:

1. among the people

  Familiarity information: POPULARLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULARLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Among the people

Context example:

this topic was popularly discussed

Pertainym:

popular (carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large)

 Context examples 

“We chose these songs because they’re more popularly accepted,” Valenti noted.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agenciabrasil/EBC)

“We chose these songs because they’re more popularly accepted,” Valenti noted.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agência Brasil/EBC)

This vocal exercise usually conquered Meg, but John sat as unmoved as the post which is popularly believed to be deaf.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nonprofits generally do not operate to generate profit, and this characteristic is popularly considered to be the defining characterisitic of such organizations.

(Nonprofit Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and never came back any more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)