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populace

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English

Etymology

FromMiddle Frenchpopulace, fromItalianpopolaccio.

Pronunciation

(UK)IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpjʊləs/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)
(US)enPR:päpʹyə-ləs,IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpjələs/IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpjulɛs/
Homophone:populous

Noun

populace (countable anduncountable,pluralpopulaces)

Thecommonpeople of a nation.
Thepopulace despised their ignorant leader.
- 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 2, inInternal Combustion‎^[1]:
  Throughout the 1500s, thepopulace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
Theinhabitants of acountry or one of itsadministrative divisions (such as astate,province, orcounty).
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, inRAIL, number947, page57:
  Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greaterpopulace. His plaque is at Chester.

Usage notes

Do not confusepopulace (a noun) withpopulous (an adjective).
The Latin wordpopulus, which means nearly the same thing, is sometimes erroneously used forpopulace in English writing.

Synonyms

(common people of a nation): common people,hoi polloi,masses,people,rabble,riff-raff
(inhabitants of a nation):inhabitants,population

Translations

common people

Catalan:poble (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin:民眾 /民众 (zh)(mínzhòng),齊民 /齐民 (zh)(qímín),庶民 (zh)(shùmín)
Dutch:plebs (nl) n
Esperanto:popolamaso
French:bas peuple m,plèbe (fr) f(pejorative),populace (fr) f(pejorative)
German:gemeine Volk n,breite Masse f,Pöbel (de) m(pejorative)
Italian:pubblico (it) m,popolo (it) m
Japanese:民衆 (ja)(みんしゅう, minshū),大衆 (ja)(たいしゅう, taishū),庶民 (ja)(しょみん, shomin)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish:xelk (ku) m
Latin:populus (la) m
Malayalam:ജനം (ml)(janaṁ)
Plautdietsch:Bevelkjarunk f
Portuguese:povão (pt) m(pejorative),povo (pt) m
Punjabi:ਜਨਤਾ f(jantā)
Russian:просто́й наро́д m(prostój naród), (широ́кие)ма́ссы (ru) f pl(mássy),простонаро́дье (ru) n(prostonaródʹje),толпа́ (ru) f(tolpá)("crowd"),чернь (ru) f(černʹ)(pejorative),сброд (ru) m(sbrod)(pejorative),бы́дло (ru) n(býdlo)(pejorative)
Spanish:populacho (es) m(pejorative),pueblo (es) m
Tibetan:མི་དམངས(mi dmangs)
Turkish:cumhur (tr)

inhabitants of a nation—seepopulation

References

“populace”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpopulat͡sɛ]
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation:po‧pu‧la‧ce

Noun

populace f (relational adjectivepopulační)

population

Declension

Declension ofpopulace (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	populace	populace
genitive	populace	populací
dative	populaci	populacím
accusative	populaci	populace
vocative	populace	populace
locative	populaci	populacích
instrumental	populací	populacemi

Derived terms

populační

Further reading

“populace”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
“populace”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
“populace”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025

French

Etymology

Borrowed fromItalianpopolazzo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ.py.las/

Noun

populace f (pluralpopulaces)

(derogatory)populace, common people
Synonym:plèbe

Related terms

peuple

Further reading

“populace”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

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