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单词 populace
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populacen.

Brit. /ˈpɒpjᵿləs/, U.S. /ˈpɑpjələs/
Forms: 1500s– populace, 1600s populass, 1600s populasse.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French populace.
Etymology: < Middle French, French populace the common people, least privileged part of society (1552; also as †populasse (1555), †populas (1562)) < Italian popolaccio , (now rare) popolazzo the common people (c1300 as popolazzo ), rabble, mob (a1347 as popolazzo ), the plebs in ancient Rome (first half of the 14th cent. in a translation of Livy) < popolo people n. + -accio , -azzo , suffix forming nouns with pejorative connotations ( < classical Latin -āceus : see -aceous suffix).
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]
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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).
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