Usually means: Widely liked or appreciated by many.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word popular:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. popular: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. popular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. popular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. popular: Collins English Dictionary
  5. popular: Vocabulary.com
  6. Popular, popular: Wordnik
  7. popular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Popular, popular: Wiktionary
  9. popular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. popular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. popular: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. popular: Dictionary.com
  13. popular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. popular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Popular (Darren Hayes song), Popular (Eric Saade song), Popular (Nada Surf song), Popular (TV series), Popular (The Veronicas song), Popular (Wicked song), Popular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Popular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. popular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. popular: Rhymezone
  19. popular, popular, populr: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. popular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. popular: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. popular: Free Dictionary
  23. popular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. popular: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. popular: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. popular: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. popular: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. popular: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. popular: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. popular: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Common among the general public; generally accepted.
adjective:  (law) Concerning the people; public.
adjective:  Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of low birth, not noble; vulgar, plebian.
adjective:  Aimed at ordinary people, as opposed to specialists etc.; intended for general consumption.
adjective:  (obsolete) Cultivating the favour of the common people.
adjective:  Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired.
adjective:  Adapted to the means of the common people; cheap.
noun:  A person who is popular, especially at a school.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) An inexpensive newspaper with wide circulation.
noun:  A member of the Populares
noun:  A member of any political party with "Popular" in the title, such as the Partido Popular in Spain or Popolari di Italia Domani in Italy

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