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populist
A believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people.
🌱He knew he would have to campaign as a populist in order to appeal to the working-class voters. 🌳The word *populist* first appeared in the 1890s with the founding of the Populist Party, which stood for the interests of the farmers against the big-money interests. In later years *populism* came to be associated with the blue-collar class in the cities as well. Populism can be hard to predict. It sometimes has a religious tendency; it usually isn't very interested in international affairs; it has sometimes been unfriendly to immigrants and blacks; and it's often anti-intellectual. So populism often switches between liberal and conservative. But the *populist* style always shows its concern with Americans with average incomes as opposed to the rich and powerful. populace 1、 The common people or masses.
2、 Population.
🌱Perhaps Henry Ford's major achievement was to manufacture a car that practically the entire populace could afford—the Model T. 🌳*Populace* is usually used to refer to all the people of a country. Thus, we're often told that an educated and informed populace is essential for a healthy American democracy. Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous radio "Fireside Chats" informed and reassured the American populace in the 1930s as we struggled through the Great Depression. We often hear about what "the general populace" is thinking or doing, but generalizing about something so huge can be tricky. populous Numerous, densely settled, or having a large population.
🌱Most Americans can't locate Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, on a map. 🌳With a metropolitan area of more than 20 million people, Mexico City could be called the world's second or third most populous city. And the nearby Aztec city of Tenochtitlán was one of the largest cities in the world even when Hernán Cortés arrived there in 1519. But by the time Cortés conquered the city in 1521 it wasn't nearly so populous, since European diseases had greatly reduced the population. Avoid confusing *populous* and *populace*, which are pronounced exactly the same. vox populi Popular sentiment or opinion.
🌱Successful politicians are always listening to the vox populi and adjusting their opinions or language accordingly. 🌳Dating from at least the time of Charlemagne, the Latin saying "Vox populi, vox Dei" means literally "The voice of the people is the voice of God"—in other words, the people's voice is sacred, or the people are always right. Today, by means of modern opinion polls, we seem to hear the vox populi （or *vox pop* for short） year-round on every possible issue. But maybe we should occasionally keep in mind that full Charlemagne-era quotation: "Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."
🌱He knew he would have to campaign as a populist in order to appeal to the working-class voters. 🌳The word *populist* first appeared in the 1890s with the founding of the Populist Party, which stood for the interests of the farmers against the big-money interests. In later years *populism* came to be associated with the blue-collar class in the cities as well. Populism can be hard to predict. It sometimes has a religious tendency; it usually isn't very interested in international affairs; it has sometimes been unfriendly to immigrants and blacks; and it's often anti-intellectual. So populism often switches between liberal and conservative. But the *populist* style always shows its concern with Americans with average incomes as opposed to the rich and powerful. populace 1、 The common people or masses.
2、 Population.
🌱Perhaps Henry Ford's major achievement was to manufacture a car that practically the entire populace could afford—the Model T. 🌳*Populace* is usually used to refer to all the people of a country. Thus, we're often told that an educated and informed populace is essential for a healthy American democracy. Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous radio "Fireside Chats" informed and reassured the American populace in the 1930s as we struggled through the Great Depression. We often hear about what "the general populace" is thinking or doing, but generalizing about something so huge can be tricky. populous Numerous, densely settled, or having a large population.
🌱Most Americans can't locate Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, on a map. 🌳With a metropolitan area of more than 20 million people, Mexico City could be called the world's second or third most populous city. And the nearby Aztec city of Tenochtitlán was one of the largest cities in the world even when Hernán Cortés arrived there in 1519. But by the time Cortés conquered the city in 1521 it wasn't nearly so populous, since European diseases had greatly reduced the population. Avoid confusing *populous* and *populace*, which are pronounced exactly the same. vox populi Popular sentiment or opinion.
🌱Successful politicians are always listening to the vox populi and adjusting their opinions or language accordingly. 🌳Dating from at least the time of Charlemagne, the Latin saying "Vox populi, vox Dei" means literally "The voice of the people is the voice of God"—in other words, the people's voice is sacred, or the people are always right. Today, by means of modern opinion polls, we seem to hear the vox populi （or *vox pop* for short） year-round on every possible issue. But maybe we should occasionally keep in mind that full Charlemagne-era quotation: "Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."
POPUL comes from the Latin word meaning "people," and in fact forms the basis of the word people itself. So the population is the people of an area, and popular means not only "liked by many people" but also (as in popular culture) "relating to the general public."🌸