单词 | populace |
释义 | populacen. 1. Ordinary people, as opposed to the titled, wealthy, or privileged classes; people generally. Also (derogatory): the mob, the rabble, the masses. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] folkc888 peoplea1325 frapec1330 commona1350 common peoplea1382 commonsa1382 commontya1387 communityc1400 meiniec1400 commonaltya1425 commonsa1500 vulgarsa1513 many1526 meinie1532 multitude1535 the many-headed beast (also monster)1537 number1542 ignobility1546 commonitya1550 popular1554 populace1572 popularya1578 vulgarity?1577 populacya1583 rout1589 the vulgar1590 plebs1591 mobile vulgusc1599 popularity1599 ignoble1603 the million1604 plebe1612 plebeity1614 the common filea1616 the herda1616 civils1644 commonality1649 democracy1656 menu1658 mobile1676 crowd1683 vulgusa1687 mob1691 Pimlico parliament?1774 citizenry1795 polloi1803 demos1831 many-headed1836 hoi polloi1837 the masses1837 citizenhood1843 John Q.1922 wimble-wamble1937 1572 Sir T. Smith in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 378 The unruly malice and sworde of the raging populace. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) vii. lxxvii. 193 T'accommodate, And calme the Peeres, and please the Populasse. c1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ (1688) III. 415 'Tis the Populass only, who see no further than the Rind of Things. 1723 Pres. State Russia II. 141 I spit upon all the others. God bless the Populace. 1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 191 Thank God, we have no populace in America. 1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari v. i, in Sardanapalus 294 The people!—There's no people, you well know it,..There is a populace, perhaps, whose looks May shame you. 1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy viii And, being but the Populace, presumes To call itself the People. 1928 E. Pound Dr Williams' Position in Sel. Ess. (1968) 389 It has distinguished Dr Williams from the floral and unconscious minds of the populace. 1947 C. Gray Contingencies i. 20 The development of an activity known as ‘musical appreciation’, which aims at fostering a love of music among the populace. 1998 New Yorker 1 June 42/2 He remains unloved by a significant portion of the populace and actively scorned by the élites. 2. a. The inhabitants of a particular town, country, etc.; = population n.1 2a. With singular and plural agreement. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [noun] erd-folka1325 furniture1526 inhabitation1588 population1612 peopling1622 stock1668 populace1687 habitancya1859 tenantrya1871 1687 W. D. tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle Disc. Plurality of Worlds 46 We see here that the Subterranean Rome was almost as big as Rome above the Earth; there needs no more than to take away this, the rest will be a Town like those in the Moon; a whole Populace [Fr. tout un Peuple] is together. 1693 J. Tyrrell Bibliotheca Politica (1694) viii. 603 Put it in the Power of the Major, and Aldermen to Elect for the future, when it was the whole Populace, or all the Inhabitants of that Town that were to Elect before. 1748 Coll. Scare & Valuable Tracts III. 538 The infatuated and easily deluded Populace of England may seem to despise the Confederates in their Discourse. 1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iv. 184 (note) By this old man is personified the populace of Portugal. 1814 M. Faraday in P. Day Philosopher's Tree (1999) iii. 46 The numbers that were waltzing to the music of itinerant musicians..did not seem the least cheerful and happy part of the populace of Turin. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 422 The populace of England were unconsciously on the rapid road to Protestantism. 1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 220 The Saxonic dialects, under the name of Nieder-Deutsch or Platt-Deutsch are still in regular use among the populace of North Germany. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 966/2 Ukiyo-e grew to be almost exclusively the art of the populace of Edo. 1993 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Misreadings 76 Every morning the members of the tribe read a hieratic message that the village headmen have distributed among the populace. b. In extended use: the flora or fauna of a particular place. Chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun] increase1559 standing crop1683 populace1742 population1803 abundance1898 biota1901 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 12 Queen Lilies! and ye painted Populace! Who dwell in Fields, and lead ambrosial lives. 1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 422 The turtle-dove, the timid fawn, the soft-eyed gazel, and all the rural populace who joy in the sequestered haunts of nature. 1839 C. R. Kennedy Poems (1857) 92 How peacefully the commonwealth of ants Together dwell, within a narrow space A myriad-swarming thriving populace. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) i. 16 Here to my feet, that April morning, swept a radiant populace of flowers, sprung overnight. 2004 Seattle Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. f8 The birds ‘recall’ gardens and feeder locations, and since many of them live several years, your summer populace may return year after year. 3. A multitude, a crowd, a throng. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous weredc725 herec855 heap971 trumec1380 multitudea1382 herda1400 swarm1423 confluence1447 puissance?a1475 army?1518 multitudine1547 bike1554 conflux1702 snarl1775 rallya1794 populace1823 hive1834 skreeda1838 skit1913 rort1941 1823 Times 3 Mar. 2/5 The riotous populace surrounded the Palace, and set up dreadful cries against the King. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 65 With a throng about the portal, with a populace in the gate. 1915 F. H. Burnett Lost Prince xxiv. 238 The broad pavements..were crowded with a cheering populace watching the martial pomp and splendour as it passed by. 1993 Mod. Asian Stud. 27 587 A large populace had been gathered together. There were thousands of people present. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1572 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。