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populace

 
Dictionary: pop·u·lace   (pŏp'yə-lĭs) pronunciation
n.
  1. The general public; the masses.
  2. A population.

[French, from Italian popolaccio, rabble, from popolo, the people, from Latin populus. See popular.]


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noun

    The common people: common (used in plural), commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), public, ruck1, third estate. See over/under.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: people in general considered as a whole
  Synonyms: public, world


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A populace is a group of people forming the total population of a certain place. It is taken from the Latin word populus, which means "people", but also in the sense of a race, nationality, or locality. This can be compared with the Spanish word pueblo, which derives from the same Latin root.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - den store hob, befolkning

Nederlands (Dutch)
het gewone volk, bevolking

Français (French)
n. - population

Deutsch (German)
n. - breite Masse

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λαουτζίκος, κοσμάκης, πλεμπάγια, όχλος, μάζες, πληθυσμός

Italiano (Italian)
popolazione, popolino

Português (Portuguese)
n. - populacho (m)

Русский (Russian)
население, народ

Español (Spanish)
n. - pueblo, vulgo, populacho

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - befolkningen, massan

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
平民, 人口, 大众

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 平民, 人口, 大眾

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전체주민, 서민, 하층사회

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 全住民, 大衆, 民衆

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) العامه, الجماهير‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ההמון הפשוט, אספסוף‬


 
 
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