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单词 populace
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Definition of populace in English:

populace

noun ˈpɒpjʊləsˈpɑpjələs
  • treated as singular or plural The people living in a particular country or area.

    the party misjudged the mood of the populace
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When this occurs, the victim becomes completely insane, and in large populaces, such as ours, riots and chaos ensue.
    • Now, this could be because the outraged populace is rising up in protest - but outraged populaces generally do not rise up in protest with car bombs.
    • As the story goes, the crime wave currently sweeping places like Trinidad has been caused by the return of undesirables who upon repatriation have brought all manners of new criminal skills to bear on our hapless populaces.
    • The most difficult and the most valuable is a well-educated populace.
    • It does not matter whether we fly jets, develop purchasing agreements with local populaces, guard airfield and housing perimeters, make policies, or design new weapon systems, our thoughts do count in this uncertain future.
    • Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
    • Atrocities that occur in dictatorships generate little fanfare or international reaction because the images are not as available to the wired West or to repressed populaces.
    • It's when they up the ante and start selling air to whole areas that the populace is left, quite literally, gasping.
    • Two populaces living under two extreme weather conditions virtually eradicated off the face of the globe.
    • Finally, anthropologists since Eric Wolf's seminal work on brokers have observed bureaucracies encouraging patron-client relationships, both between bureaucrats and clients and within local populaces.
    • Applied anthropologists, by their work placed in between corporations, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and various populaces, are well-positioned to study up.
    • Do I think that states will use whatever technology is available to control their own populaces?
    • He received the support of the local populace and became that constituency's MP.
    • I can't wait for the crowd who plead for understanding of why certain populaces have brought terrorism on themselves to try and wiggle this one around 180 degrees.
    • There is also a population zone, which prevents one from building a city too close to other friendly or enemy populaces.
    • The tribal populace in the hilly areas of the State has not been largely affected by the same as comapared to the plain people.
    • The order was intended to create a new dimension of fear among the local populace by making its victims simply disappear without trace.
    • The commander's emergency response program is a program set up by the military to take care of humanitarian needs for the local populaces - needs that will make a quick and lasting impact on the community.
    • The paternalistic style of rule is unequal to the demands of transparency and accountability that local populaces - and overseas investors - want.
    • In some Muslim societies, judges and populaces might stone out of mistaken belief that this was what Islam required.
    Synonyms
    population, inhabitants, residents, natives, occupants, occupiers
    community, country, public, people, nation
    common people, general public, man/woman in the street, masses, multitude, rank and file, commonality, commonalty, third estate, plebeians, proletariat, crowd
    North American man/woman on the street
    informal folk, common folk
    British informal Joe Public, Joe Bloggs
    North American informal John Doe
    humorous denizens
    derogatory the hoi polloi, common herd, rabble, mob, riff-raff, the canaille, the great unwashed, ragtag (and bobtail), proles, plebs
    rare indigenes

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Italian popolaccio 'common people', from popolo 'people' + the pejorative suffix -accio.

  • people from Middle English:

    People is from Anglo-Norman French poeple, from Latin populus ‘populace’, also the source of words such as population (mid 16th century); populace (late 16th century); and popular (Late Middle English) originally ‘prevalent among the general public’: with ‘liked and admired’ early 17th century. The phrase of all people expressing disbelief about somebody dates from the 1700s; the capitalized form in the phrase the People referring in US legal contexts to the State prosecution the People versus…dates from the early 19th century. See also public

Rhymes

populous
 
 

Definition of populace in US English:

populace

nounˈpäpyələsˈpɑpjələs
  • treated as singular or plural The people living in a particular country or area.

    the party misjudged the mood of the populace
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The tribal populace in the hilly areas of the State has not been largely affected by the same as comapared to the plain people.
    • As the story goes, the crime wave currently sweeping places like Trinidad has been caused by the return of undesirables who upon repatriation have brought all manners of new criminal skills to bear on our hapless populaces.
    • Applied anthropologists, by their work placed in between corporations, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and various populaces, are well-positioned to study up.
    • Now, this could be because the outraged populace is rising up in protest - but outraged populaces generally do not rise up in protest with car bombs.
    • In some Muslim societies, judges and populaces might stone out of mistaken belief that this was what Islam required.
    • The most difficult and the most valuable is a well-educated populace.
    • I can't wait for the crowd who plead for understanding of why certain populaces have brought terrorism on themselves to try and wiggle this one around 180 degrees.
    • Atrocities that occur in dictatorships generate little fanfare or international reaction because the images are not as available to the wired West or to repressed populaces.
    • Do I think that states will use whatever technology is available to control their own populaces?
    • When this occurs, the victim becomes completely insane, and in large populaces, such as ours, riots and chaos ensue.
    • The commander's emergency response program is a program set up by the military to take care of humanitarian needs for the local populaces - needs that will make a quick and lasting impact on the community.
    • He received the support of the local populace and became that constituency's MP.
    • It's when they up the ante and start selling air to whole areas that the populace is left, quite literally, gasping.
    • It does not matter whether we fly jets, develop purchasing agreements with local populaces, guard airfield and housing perimeters, make policies, or design new weapon systems, our thoughts do count in this uncertain future.
    • Finally, anthropologists since Eric Wolf's seminal work on brokers have observed bureaucracies encouraging patron-client relationships, both between bureaucrats and clients and within local populaces.
    • The order was intended to create a new dimension of fear among the local populace by making its victims simply disappear without trace.
    • Two populaces living under two extreme weather conditions virtually eradicated off the face of the globe.
    • The paternalistic style of rule is unequal to the demands of transparency and accountability that local populaces - and overseas investors - want.
    • Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
    • There is also a population zone, which prevents one from building a city too close to other friendly or enemy populaces.
    Synonyms
    population, inhabitants, residents, natives, occupants, occupiers

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Italian popolaccio ‘common people’, from popolo ‘people’ + the pejorative suffix -accio.

 
 
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