populace

CEFRC1

/ˈpɒpjʊləs/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
The people who live in a particular country or place.
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noun
Extra detail
The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).

Examples

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

The populace despised their ignorant leader.
Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.

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Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57
Throughout the 1500s, the populace 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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

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Borrowed from Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio, from popolo + -accio (“pejorative suffix”), from Latin populus.