Popularity Meaning
/ˌpɒp.jəˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being widely liked or in favor with the people at large.
nounThe quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people
Sentence Examples
The popularity of a web site depends on its content.
Television has robbed cinema of its former popularity.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The singer's ____ increased dramatically after her first hit song.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her ____ soared after the video of her performance went viral and attracted millions of views.
Word Origin & History
From popular + -ity, from Latin popularitas (“an effort to please the people”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"So this Gallant, labouring to avoid Popularity, falls into a habit of Affectation, Ten thousand times hatefuller than the former."
— 1600, Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of His Humour:
"Popularities, and circumstances which […] sway the ordinary judgment."
— 1597, Francis Bacon, The Colours or Good and Evil:
"Cato (the younger) charged Muraena, and indicted him in open court for popularity and ambition."
— 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Moralia:
"A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease."
— 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The singer's ____ increased dramatically after her first hit song.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her ____ soared after the video of her performance went viral and attracted millions of views.